California fires from Genesis I

[docm]

I fed these through my image editor to improve the gamma etc. and crop them to the necessary;<br /><br />Image 1.....<br /><br />Image 2.....<br /><br />The originals and others are on Bigelow's site here;<br /><br />http://bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/ <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[holmec]

Those are really good pics for such a tragic event.<br /><br />I'm awed. <img src="/images/icons/blush.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Thanx docm.<br /><br />Watching all my friends out there. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[Testing]

A number of missions are helping out with this mess. Aqua, Terra, Goes W, QuickSCAT and IKHANA is back in the air. Yesterdays images, NASA.gov, search IKHANA, link to images at the bottom of the page. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[shuttle2moon]

I was watching mainstream news (CNN Anderson Cooper) who said that the concerntration on going to the Moon and Mars is going to take resources away from fighting these sort things.....is this true?

 

[docm]

The red flags go up when you combine science, CNN and especially Anderson Cooper <img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /><br /><br />He's just echoing the anti-maned spaceflight crowd who fear that Earth science will suffer if we go anywhere else. <br /><br />This doesn't take into account the fact that the observation of such fires can be done from UAV's like as Testing said NASA's Ikhana (a modified Predator B which was deployed to these fires) with much greater accuracy than can be done by satellites. An added plus is that they can loiter over the scene for many hours at a time while non-geostationary satellites cannot.<br /><br />The monitoring of vegetation before a fire is of course also key, but that capability is in place not only from NASA and ESA but commercial observation satellites (Satellite Imaging Corporation etc.) which are already being used by commercial growers and farmers. <br /><br />With this continuing commercial need the ability to monitor fire zones is but a click away for land managers, if they have the sense to use it, and is affected not one whit by what manned programs are carried out. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[propforce]

Here's another good site to view these images Earth Observatory.NASA.<br /><br />This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Testing]

IKHANA is flying again today and possibly Friday. Response time is quoted as 10-15 minutes to have the images in front of the incedent commanders. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[PistolPete]

They should let Miles O'Brien handle science stuff.<br /><br />Did you hear that they had to add on a new wing to the CNN building in Atlanta just to house Anderson Cooper's gigantic ego? Seriously though, Cooper's got his head shoved so far up his fourth point of contact that he can't see the facts from the BS. He did fairly good with Katrina, but sudden fame can make a person a little loopy. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[webtaz99]

(Especially if they already are. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> ) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>