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
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/forest-fire-atlas-provide-information-realtime
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/atlas
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-fires
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/atmosphere
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/europe
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
