Aerial Image of the Paradise, California Fire

This is an image of Paradise, California, on November 8^th, 2018.  Last year, hundreds of thousands of acres of forest were burnt down just north of Sacramento.  In fact, this fire burnt down the entire town of Paradise, California to the ground, killing dozens of people.  

NASA and commercial companies such as DigitalGlobe recorded images of the fire from above in effort to provide information about where it could possibly spread next and how to combat it.  While wildfires and their destruction are very tragic, it is interesting to see how satellite imagery can assist firefighters and other officials when dealing with natural disasters. 

While this image’s spatial resolution is not very small, I do not believe it is necessary to be able to detect very small objects on the ground in the image.  Rather, I believe the purpose of this image was to show the overall form and shape of the fire.