Amazon Fire Tracker 2020: End of August Update (Over 600 Major Fires)
August 2020 just ended its run as a severe Amazon fire month. k Our novel Real-time Amazon Fire Monitoring app has detected 646 major fires in the Brazilian Amazon thus far in 2020.* k Of these, 88% (569 major fires)…
Amazon Fire Tracker 2020: Over 500 Illegal Major Fires in Brazilian Amazon
The Brazilian Amazon just passed a grim milestone: Over 500 illegal major fires thus far in 2020. The other major headline is that, although most fires continue to burn recently deforested areas, we are now seeing an increase in forest…
Amazon Fire Tracker 2020: Images of the Brazilian Amazon Fires
Our innovative new app for Real-time Amazon Fire Monitoring has now detected over 350 major fires in the Brazilian Amazon this season.* Specifically, we have detected 365 major fires as of August 17, since the first major fire detected on…
Amazon Fire Tracker 2020: Over 200 Major Fires as of Aug 10
Our innovative new app for Real-time Amazon Fire Monitoring has detected over 200 major fires in 2020. The app specializes in filtering out thousands of the traditional heat-based fire alerts to prioritize only those burning large amounts of biomass (defined…
Amazon Fire Tracker 2020 – July Update
Recall we recently launched an innovative new app for Real-time Amazon Fire Monitoring (see MAAP #118 for details). In a novel approach, the app combines data from the atmosphere (aerosol emissions in smoke) and the ground (heat anomaly alerts) to…
AMAZON FIRE TRACKER 2020: BRAZIL FIRE #15 (JULY 10)
See MAAP #118 for background information about real-time fire monitoring work.…
AMAZON FIRE TRACKER 2020: BRAZIL FIRE #14 (JULY 2)
See MAAP #118 for background information about real-time fire monitoring work.…
AMAZON FIRE TRACKER 2020: BRAZIL FIRE #13 (JUNE 29)
See MAAP #118 for background information about real-time fire monitoring work.…
Amazon Fire Tracker 2020: Brazil Fire #12 (June 29)
As presented in MAAP #118, Amazon Conservation launched a real-time fire monitoring app that specializes in the rapid and user-friendly detection and visualization of major Amazon fires. In a novel approach, the app combines data from the atmosphere (aerosol emissions…
Fire Alert vs. Aerosol Emission Data
Fire Alert vs. Aerosol Emission Data This slider shows us how aerosol emission data allows users to prioritize hundreds (or thousands) of heat-based fire alerts. In other words, the aerosol data indicates just the fires that are actually burning lots…