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From
space,
we
can
understand
fires
in
ways
that
are
impossible
from
the
ground.
New
Earth-observing
satellites
capture
the
significant
impact
of
fires
on
our
planet.
In
this
animation
of
fires
around
the
globe
in
2002,
each
red
dot
marks
a
new
fire.
Dots
change
color
to
yellow
after
a
few
days
and
to
black
when
fires
burn
out.
From
brush
fires
in
Africa
to
forest
fires
in
North
America,
satellites
...
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The High Definition version of the Multisensor Fire Observation animation with audio, text labels and colorbars. -
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The
ten
small
scenes
show
a
one
mile
square
area
in
the
Olympic
National
Forest
to
the
northwest
of
the
Olympic
National
Park
on
the
Olympic
Pennisula
in
northwestern
Washington
State.
Clear
cutting
in
the
area
was
already
well
underway
at
the
time
for
the
first
Landsat
scene
in
1984.
Public
land
use
policy
changes
in
the
late
1980s
resulted
in
timber
cutting
relocating
from
public
lands
to
private
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Photographs from Olympic National Forest, 1997
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Nice sharp clear-cuts in mid-distance. -
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Photographs from Olympic National Forest, 1997
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Young conifers in a regrowth region. -
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This animation starts with a false-color map of tree heights north of San Jose, Costa Rica, and changes to a close-up 3D cut-away of a section of the forest with simulated green canopy. Data from LVIS observations taken in March, 1998.
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This animation starts with a false-color map of tree heights north of San Jose, Costa Rica, and changes to a close-up 3D cut-away of a section of the forest with simulated green canopy. Data from LVIS observations taken in March, 1998. -
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This animation starts with a false-color map of tree heights north of San Jose, Costa Rica, and changes to a close-up 3D cut-away of a section of the forest, also in false color. Data from LVIS observations taken in March, 1998.
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This animation starts with a false-color map of tree heights north of San Jose, Costa Rica, and changes to a close-up 3D cut-away of a section of the forest, also in false color. Data from LVIS observations taken in March, 1998. -
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This animation of Yosemite National Park was created with Landsat 7 data. It was part of a series of animations done to promote our National Parks.
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A birds eye view of Yosemite National Park in the summer of 1999 -
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A flyby of Yellowstone National Park, using Landsat imagery draped over elevation data
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This animation starts with a view of the entire Yellowstone National Park and zooms down to Canyon Village. From there, the animation follows the Yellowstone River into Yellowstone Lake. -
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A slow flyby of the Pacific Northwest from Crater Lake to Mt. Rainier, using Landsat imagery draped over elevation data.
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This animation starts at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, and travels north to Seattle, Washington. Views of Wizard Island in Crater lake, the Columbia River, Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Spirit Lake, and Mt. Rainier can be seen. -
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A flyby of Mt. St. Helens, Washington, using Landsat imagery draped over elevation data.
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