{"id":41968,"date":"2021-08-13T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41968"},"modified":"2021-08-15T03:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T03:37:46","slug":"day-32-of-the-dixie-fire-in-california-as-viewed-from-5-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41968","title":{"rendered":"Day 32 of the Dixie Fire in California, as viewed from 5 satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210813_goes17_goes15_goes14_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_Dixie_Fire_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/G17_G15_G14_G16_SWIR_CA_13AUG2021_B7227_2021225_120025_0004PANELS_FRAME0000001.GIF\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images from GOES-17, GOES-15, GOES-14 and GOES-16 [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210813_goes17_goes15_goes14_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_Dixie_Fire_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/7690\/\"><strong>Dixie Fire<\/strong><\/a> (which had grown to become the largest on record for the state of California) began burning on 13 July 2021 &#8212; and on 13 August 2021, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images from 1-minute GOES-17, 15 to 30-minute GOES-15, 15-to 30-minute GOES-14 and 5-minute GOES-16 <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the thermal signature (darker red to black pixels) during the 1200 UTC &#8211; 1801 UTC period. The images were displayed in the native projection of each satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Although there was smoke and some clouds across the area at the time of the Suomi NPP overpass, the VIIRS False Color RGB image provided a good view of most of the fire&#8217;s large burn scar (shades of red to brown). On this day, the fire had burned nearly 518,000 acres, and was 31% contained.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210813_2103utc_suomiNPP_viirs_falseColorRGB_trueColorRGB_Dixie_Fire_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210813_2103utc_suomiNPP_viirs_falseColorRGB_trueColorRGB_Dixie_Fire_CA_anim.gif\" width=\"639\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS False Color RGB and True Color RGB images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dixie Fire (which had grown to become the largest on record for the state of California) began burning on 13 July 2021 &#8212; and on 13 August 2021, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images from 1-minute GOES-17, 15 to 30-minute GOES-15, 15-to 30-minute GOES-14 and 5-minute GOES-16 (above) showed the thermal signature (darker red to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,43,74,80,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-14","category-goes-15","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968","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=41968"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41978,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968\/revisions\/41978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}