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Sentinel-2B - 2020-02-03 - Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory

Published:12 May 2023

A Sentinel-2B image of the Orroral Valley fire in Namadgi National Park. This image uses false colour imagery which pushes up into the short-wave infrared part of spectrum, showing the fire front in blazing white.

A Sentinel-2B image of the Orroral Valley fire in Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory. This image uses false colour imagery which includes the short-wave infrared part of spectrum, showing the fire front in blazing white.

 

Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021. Input data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 courtesy of the European Space Agency.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050433

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