I posted this in the (gasp, cough, sneeze, choke) smoky Chiang Rai forum but it didn't seem to generate much interest. It's applicable to all of Thailand so perhaps here is a better place.

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If anyone would like to know exactly where fires are and have been burning over the past 24 hours (continuously updated every two hours from NASA satellites), then go here:

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/data/firms/active-fire-data

then click on the KML tab and download the KML file for SE Asia. If you are new to this stuff, download the KML README PDF from the link on the same page. Open the KML file in Google Earth and all will be revealed. Here's an example from 13th Feb 2013.

Despite much effort I am unable to make the embedded images visible. So if the above images don't appear on your screen, just click on the links below:

https://www.dropbox....t) (Medium).jpg

https://www.dropbox....n) (Medium).jpg

(Anyone may freely copy this information together with the links and images and post it to other forums as they see fit)

Link doesn't work, "webpage not available". I'm not surprised that the whole map isn't on fire. It's sugar cane burning time around where I live until Songkran. Burn it at night cut it the next day and then burn the next field. Always some nice black wet dew on everything in the morning along with the "smog". They cut it by hand so they burn it to rid it of dead leaves and "critters" to make it easier and safer to cut.

I tested the Dropbox links and the images display perfectly. You could also click below to go to the Chiang Rai forum post where, for some arcane reason, the images DO appear:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/619075-nasa-satellite-view-of-current-fires-in-se-asia/

Droplinks ok. Website wouldn't load before, now ok.

Would this help?

Thanks David, but it would be very useful if you explained exactly how you got that image into the post. I tried again (here) to no avail .,... (clicked on image on the menu bar and supplied a url as requested)

I tried a few things and couldn't make it stick also.

Tywais give us a good tip once. If the image doesn't display and it's https:// ... remove the 's' and make it http:// ... that seems to work in some situations.

As for how I did it ... I simply did a screen shot of the image, cropped my personal information out and converted it to a .jpeg

Thanks David, but it would be very useful if you explained exactly how you got that image into the post. I tried again (here) to no avail .,... (clicked on image on the menu bar and supplied a url as requested)

On your keyboard, the PrtScn key copies your screen to your clipboard. Then if you have the software such as photoshop or the free Irfanview, You can open a new blank file and paste it in. Then you use the cropping tool to get just the photo. Next if needed you resize it and save>as a .JPEG/JPG.

BTW, although I have photoshop, I also use Irfanview for my photo viewer. It has a lot of quick things it can do such as rotate and resize images, lighten and darken, crop, etc.

Edit to add that this is also a tool to circumvent those sites that won't let you copy a picture, such as those displayed with other software. Sometimes I really want a photo for something and I just chuckle, hit the key, paste and crop. It also works to grab a screenshot from a video and save it as a .jpg.

Edited February 14, 201313 yr by NeverSure

Thank you for the tuts on capturing the screen. What I really want to know is how did David get the image INTO the post. I did it easily when I posted the same story to the Chiang Rai forum (take a look) but have been unable to do it anywhere else :-(

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/619075-nasa-satellite-view-of-current-fires-in-se-asia/

it looks like southern Laos and Cambodia are the worst hit....Thailand seems less than 20% of the fires there, but the smoke knows no borders and we'll choke on our neighbor's fires