Harrowing satellite images from NASA show the grim state of Los Angeles amid the wildfires. Nearly a week since the fires were stoked, more than 40,588 acres of land has been torched and 24 people ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Canada is facing another dangerous wildfire season, ...

Smoke from numerous wildfires burning across the western United States was visible in satellite imagery from Monday, September 8. CSU/CIRA and NOAA said the “thick grayish-brown smoke” was captured by ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track ...

For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track these smoke plumes, but the view was only two-dimensional: The satellites couldn’t determine how close the smoke was ...

Prof. Wang's group have been supported from NOAA, NASA, and Naval ONR to develop research algorithm to retrieve aerosol layer height. The compute codes of the research algorithm were shared with ...