{"id":621,"date":"2008-03-12T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T23:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/621"},"modified":"2008-03-14T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T02:12:33","slug":"fires-in-the-southeastern-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/621","title":{"rendered":"Fire activity in the southeastern US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/080312_modis_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS true color images (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/080312_modis_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS true color images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"MODIS true color images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"337\" width=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>[Image source: Liam Gumley, SSEC\/CIMSS] <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A comparison of two consecutive MODIS true color images from the same day <em><strong>(viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/spotlight\/google-earth.htm\" title=\"Google Earth satellite imagery from SSEC\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth<\/a>, above)<\/strong><\/em> reveals that numerous small fires developed (and produced smoke plumes) within a relatively short amount of time across the southeastern US on <strong>12 March 2008<\/strong>. The satellite overpass time of the earlier Terra MODIS image is around 16:18 UTC <em>(12:18 PM local time),<\/em> while the overpass times of the eastern and western portions of the later Aqua MODIS image is around 17:53 UTC <em>(1:53 PM local time)<\/em> and 19:32 UTC  <em>(3:32 PM local time),<\/em> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The GOES-12 <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/burn\/wfabba\/wfabba_seusgulf.html\" title=\"Wildfire ABBA product\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wildfire ABBA product<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> confirms the presence of widespread &#8220;fire hot spots&#8221; that increased in number and coverage during the late morning and early afternoon hours on 12 March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/080312_wfabba_anim.gif\" title=\"Wildfire ABBA (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/080312_wfabba_anim.gif\" title=\"Wildfire ABBA (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"Wildfire ABBA (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"351\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/wfabba_legend.gif\" title=\"Wildfire ABBA legend\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/wfabba_legend.gif\" title=\"Wildfire ABBA legend\" alt=\"Wildfire ABBA legend\" align=\"middle\" height=\"81\" width=\"482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Image source: Liam Gumley, SSEC\/CIMSS] A comparison of two consecutive MODIS true color images from the same day (viewed using Google Earth, above) reveals that numerous small fires developed (and produced smoke plumes) within a relatively short amount of time across the southeastern US on 12 March 2008. The satellite overpass time of the earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-12","category-google-earth","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}