Forest fire atlas to provide information realtime
Forest fire atlas to provide information realtime
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the European Space Agency (esa) has come out with a world fire atlas based on satellite data on forest fires collected over a decade. The maps are available to users online in near-real time (within six hours of a fire).
The data was taken from instruments called Along Track Scanning Radiometers aboard two esa satellites
Publication Date:
29/06/2006