{"id":3159,"date":"2009-08-08T23:56:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2009-08-10T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T23:04:03","slug":"wildfire-in-southwestern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/3159","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire in southwestern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090808_modis_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS true color and MODIS false color images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090808_modis_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS true color + MODIS false color image\" width=\"479\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color and MODIS false color images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color images from the <a title=\"SSEC MODIS Today site\" href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&amp;product=true_color&amp;date=2009_08_08_220\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SSEC MODIS Today<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large smoke plume and &#8220;fire hot spot&#8221; from the 4700-acre &#8220;Narraguinnep Fire&#8221; that was burning in southwestern Colorado on <a title=\"08 August 2009 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20090808.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>08 August 2009<\/strong><\/a>. On the false color image, the fire hot spot appears as a large cluster of pink to red\u00c2\u00a0 pixels.<\/p>\n<p>The MODIS true color image viewed using Google Earth <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> shows that the fire was located in the far western portion of the Uncompahgre National Forest, about midway between Dove Creek and Dolores in southwestern Colorado. The fire was believed\u00c2\u00a0 to have been started by lightning on the previous day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090808_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS true color image (viewed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090808_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\" alt=\"MODIS true color image (viewed using Google Earth)\" width=\"479\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed a large smoke plume and &#8220;fire hot spot&#8221; from the 4700-acre &#8220;Narraguinnep Fire&#8221; that was burning in southwestern Colorado on 08 August 2009. On the false color image, the fire hot spot appears as a large cluster of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-google-earth","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}