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Severe burn damage from California wildfires seen from space - Space.com

Severe burn damage from California wildfires seen from space - Space.com

Severe burn damage from California wildfires seen from space - Space.com
Oct 21, 2020 53 secs

The maps derived from the satellite data show how far two major fires spread as well as how badly each region burned.

The satellite data was collected by Landsat 8 on Sept.

The imagery captured the CZU Lightning Complex fire near Santa Cruz, and the SCU Lightning Complex fire in the Diablo Mountains.

26 to the same data collected on July 24, before the fires, Potter and his colleagues created a normalized burn ratio showing how much vegetation was lost in each fire.

The resulting maps show that the CZU Lightning Complex scar was burned deeply into the land, likely leaving little but charred tree stumps, ash and soot behind.

According to the Earth Observatory, the CZU Lightning Complex fire devastated coastal forests full of tanoaks, Douglas firs and redwoods. 

The SCU Complex fire burned grassland and oak woodlands. 

"It is rare that we get more than one large lightning-induced fire in a year in California; this year, we had 10 lightning complex fires," Potter told the Earth Observatory

"Some researchers think these lightning storms may be related to climate change

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