New map showing the damage caused by a campfire in northern California

As firefighters continue to battle the dangerous campfire in northern California, NASA's Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) group in Pasadena, California, provided another map. demonstrating the damage caused on 16 November.

The ARIA team draws up their maps by examining the satellite images of the scene of the fire to see the degree of progression between the two images. For this guide, they compared the information in the photo with a Cal Fire procedure start approval.

The map was created with the help of synthetic aperture radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites operated by the European Space Agency. The guide covers an area of ​​48 km by 48 km, shown in red on the left. A close-up view of the damage done to the city of Paradise is encrusted on the right, the plot in white. The variety of shades from yellow to red shows progressively more remarkable changes in the soil surface.

However, maps may be less reliable on green sites, such as forests, but they can help managers and first responders identify areas of severe damage and allocate needed resources.