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Interesting that FIRMS doesn't seem to yet be showing the "Sunset" fire, or anything West of Griffith Park...


Maybe because FIRMS uses data from satellites in polar orbits, which only pass over the area once every few hours? With choosing near-Earth polar vs. farther geostationary orbits there's a tradeoff between space and time resolution.




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