Camp Fire,California,November 2018,combined visible and infrared satellite image. North is at top. This fire,the deadliest and most destructive in California history,broke out on 8 November 2018. The fire consumed tens of thousands of acres of land,and resulted in 85 fatalities. The active fire areas (imaged in shortwave-infrared light) are orange. The visible image data was obtained using Landsat bands 4-3-2. This image,some 50 kilometres across,is from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. It was obtained at around 10:45 local time (18:45 UTC) on 8 November 2018,around four hours after the fire had started. |