Australia Fires 2019 From Space

Satellite pictures reveal overwhelming scale.

Australia fires 2019 from space. We pulled four before-and-after NASA satellite images and asked a bushfire researcher to reflect on the story they tell. Meteorologist Ivar van der Velde of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research in Leiden and colleagues first examined carbon monoxide data collected over southeastern Australia by the satellite-based instrument TROPOMI from November 2019 to January 2020 during the worst of the fires. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov.

Bateman Bay Australia on December 31 2019. When Australias fire season begun in September 2019 nobody could have imaged it would turn out to be one of the worst seen in decades. The European Space Agencys Sentinel-2 satellite took this image of growing bushfires while passing over Bateman Bay on New Years Eve.

The raging inferno has led to the death of at least 24 people and half a billion animals to date. Here is how the area looked before the fire left this image was taken between November 19 and 25 2019 and after right. Fire-breathing dragon of clouds.

Australias deadly wildfires have killed at least 17 people since they began in September 2019 and continued into January 2020. Vast CO 2 release from Australian fires in 20192020 constrained by satellite. Explosive Fire Activity in Australia.

Sentinel 2ESA The scope of the fires is hard to comprehend. New South Wales has been worst hit. Clarification 10th May 2021.

Images from a Maxar Technologies satellite in orbit show red flames visible from space as wildfires. Saturday November 09 2019. Australia bushfires as seen from space.