File:Smoke Cloud over the West Coast of the USA.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionSmoke Cloud over the West Coast of the USA.jpg |
English: Hundreds of fires are raging across California, fuelled by dry heat and extreme temperatures, threatening and/or forcing evacuations of thousands of homes. The wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres of brushland, rural areas, canyon country and dense forest to the north, east and south of San Francisco. Fires also carved their way through the wine country and Sierra Nevada. This image, acquired by a Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on 20 August at 18:22UTC (11:22 local time), shows the mind-boggling cloud of smoke generated by the ferocious fires which are engulfing coastal areas of California. The Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, with their SLSTR sensors, use infrared detectors to pinpoint active fires and enable to monitor their effects. |
Date | 21 August 2020 (upload date) |
Source | Smoke Cloud over the West Coast of the USA |
Author | European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery |
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[edit]This image contains data from a satellite in the Copernicus Programme, such as Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 or Sentinel-3. Attribution is required when using this image.
Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
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