The northwest fire location map displays active fire incidents within oregon and washington.
Pacific northwest satellite images of oregon fires.
At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.
A large fire as defined by the national wildland coordinating group is any wildland fire in timber 100 acres or greater and 300 acres or greater in grasslands rangelands or has an incident management team assigned to it.
During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space.
Satellite images recently shared by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the western coast of the united states and extending hundreds of miles over the pacific ocean as dozens of wildfires continue to ravage california oregon and washington and create dangerous air quality.
Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night.