Last Saturday (Sep 19), Landsat 7 satellite passed over the Mullen Fire in Medicine Bow National Forest (Wyo.) and captured the active fires. Images captured in spectral regions that are invisible to humans shows active fires.
The stripes in the Landsat 7 image correspond to missing data due to scan line corrector malfunction developed in 2003. Despite this limitation, images continued to provide valuable information about forests, croplands, water bodies and many more. Landsat 9, the next satellite in the series, is scheduled to launch in 2021. For more information about Landsat, please visit https://landsat.usgs.gov.
Mullen Fire started on Sep 17, and as of Monday (Sep 21) has burned more than 13,835 acres. Please visit the InciWeb site for more information about this fire.
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