JPL-20190514-EARTHf-0001-Forecasting Fire
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| Description | The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) is a large-scale interagency effort to identify how fuels, fire behavior, fire energy and meteorology interact to determine the dynamics of smoke plumes, the long-range transport of smoke and local fire effects such as soil heating and vegetative response. FASMEE is designed to collect observations from large prescribed fires by combining Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), radar, ground monitoring, aircraft and satellite imagery, and weather and atmospheric measurements. Knowing more about how wildland fire operates helps land managers better predict fire behavior, smoke impacts, and the short- to long-term effects of fire. It also promotes increased public and firefighter safety and aids in the allocation of firefighting resources. NASA participated in this high-intensity prescribed crown fire burn in 2019 in the Fishlake National Forest of Utah. This video won first place in the Documentation Category of NASA's Videographer |
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| Date | 2019-05-14 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |