{"id":13796,"date":"2013-08-31T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:37:14","slug":"landsat-8-images-of-the-rim-fire-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13796","title":{"rendered":"Landsat-8 images of the Rim Fire in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130831_1842z_landsat8_terrain_vis_swir_rim_fire_CA_anim_2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Google Maps terrain, with Landsat-8 0.45 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 2.29 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images\" alt=\"Google Maps terrain, with Landsat-8 0.45 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 2.29 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130831_1842z_landsat8_terrain_vis_swir_rim_fire_CA_anim_2.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Maps terrain, with Landsat-8 0.45 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 2.29 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Google Maps terrain along with 30-meter resolution Lansdat-8 0.45 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 2.29 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images of the <a title=\"Rim Fire (InciWeb)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inciweb.org\/incident\/3660\/\"><strong>Rim Fire<\/strong><\/a> in California at 18:42 UTC on <a title=\"31 August 2013 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20130831.html\"><strong>31 August 2013<\/strong><\/a> are shown above. While there were some scattered clouds in the satellite scene, a great deal of optically-thick smoke could be seen in the visible image <em>(along with some new smoke plumes from a cluster of active fires)<\/em>. On the shortwave IR image, the active fire &#8220;hot spots&#8221; appear as bright white features around the perimeter of the fire burn scar. These Landsat-8 images are displayed using the <a title=\"SSEC Web Map Server\" href=\"http:\/\/wms.ssec.wisc.edu\/gmaps\/\"><strong>SSEC Web Map Server<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of 31 August, the Rim Fire had burned 222,777 acres, making it the 4th largest fire on record for the state of California; the fire was estimated to be 45% contained at that time. The corresponding 31 August Landsat-8 false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image &#8212; created using Bands 7\/5\/3 &#8212; shows the large areal extent of the fire burn scar <em>(darker red colors),<\/em> along with the active fires along the perimeter <em>(brighter pink colors)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130831_1842z_landsat8_bands_7_5_3_rgb_topography_rim_fire_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Google Maps terrain, with Landsat-8 false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) false-color image\" alt=\"Google Maps terrain, with Landsat-8 false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) false-color image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130831_1842z_landsat8_bands_7_5_3_rgb_topography_rim_fire_CA_anim.gif\" width=\"478\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Maps terrain, with Landsat-8 false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) false-color image<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Credits: original RGB image created by Sam Batzli, SSEC; RGB image converted for WMS display by Russ Dengel, SSEC<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps terrain along with 30-meter resolution Lansdat-8 0.45 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 2.29 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images of the Rim Fire in California at 18:42 UTC on 31 August 2013 are shown above. While there were some scattered clouds in the satellite scene, a great deal of optically-thick smoke could be seen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-landsat","category-real-earth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13812,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions\/13812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}