Backbone Fire remote sensing via satellite

 The two primary means of "remote sensing" for wild fires are overnight infrared overflights and data deceived from satellites.  The MODIS & VIIRS satellite data is used by a wide variety of fire managers to understand the complexity and scope of any given incident.  

Joseph Elfelt (@MappingSupport) is one of the finest private sector GIS interpreters of  satellite data that we know.  His work is outstanding and consistently accurate.  Elfelt added The Backbone Fire map online today.  He notes that the satellite data is at least 3 hours old.  Fast moving, dynamic wild fires often change dramatically by the hour.  Therefore consider the data shown in Elfelt's map to be a "point-in-time" glimpse of The Backbone Fire earlier today.

Here is a link to the Tweet excerpted as a screen clip below:
https://twitter.com/MappingSupport/status/1405914150446854146

We enlarged Elfelt's map for a closer view shown below.

Eric Shreve is always one of the very first to post satellite data for Arizona wild fires.  He is part of the Fire Mappers network.  Here is a link to a website explaining the unique crowdsourcing aspects of Fire Mappers:
https://twitter.com/MappingSupport/status/1405914150446854146

Source: https://twitter.com/EshreveAZ/status/1405684128373121027  and #FireMappers