Landslide Risk After Fire
NASA satellite observations of the Thomas fire and the burned area in it's aftermath can be combined with precipitation data to produce maps of landslide risk.
Smoke from the Thomas Fire, December 5, 2017.
A 3D view of the burn scar from the Thomas fire using data acquired on December 18, 2017.
Rainfall measued by Imerg in the days preceeding the mudslide.
Debris flow from the Montecito landslide is visible in a January 10, 2018 satellite image.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.
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Producer
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Graphics
- Joshua Stevens (SSAI)
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Image processing
- Hal Pierce (SSAI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Saturday, May 26, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:40 AM EST.
Datasets used in this visualization
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[Terra: MODIS]
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GDEM (Global Digital Elevation Model) [Terra: ASTER]
ID: 654Credit: ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.
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True Color (Band Combination 2,3,4) [Landsat-8: OLI]
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IMERG
ID: 863This dataset can be found at: http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/document_files/IMERG_ATBD_V4.4.pdf
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