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When the JPL scientists realized that Headquarters NASA was interested in us

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responding with this synthetic aperture radar to take a look at this disaster going on with the fires in the area.

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We were tasked to bring NASA Armstrong C-20 that carries the UAVSAR pod and then we quickly put this plan together to

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fly over these

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fires tonight.

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So we've been flying over this area since 2009 to study earthquakes.

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But it turns out that this technology can also be used to measure any kind of ground

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disruption or motion and the wildfires caused that so we can look at before and after image pairs to see the differences and

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map where the fire scars are.

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Part of the reason that we're flying this precise line over this piece of

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geography is we can repeat this and put this radar through the exact same space again within a few feet.

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So what we can do is actually delineate the fire scar based on this match of before and after images.