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…
Amazon Fire Tracker 2020: Brazil #4 (June 17, 2020)
As presented in MAAP #118, Amazon Conservation launched a real-time fire monitoring app that specializes in detection of elevated aerosol emissions in the smoke coming from burning Amazon fires. As detailed below, the app just detected the fourth major Amazon…
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…
MAAP: Amazon Fire Tracker #2 – Brazil, June 8 2020
As presented in MAAP #118, Amazon Conservation launched a real-time fire monitoring app that specializes in detection of elevated aerosol emissions from burning Amazon fires. As detailed below, the app detected the second major 2020 fire on June 8, 2020…
MAAP #119: Predicting 2020 Brazilian Amazon Fires
The Brazilian Amazon fires made international headlines last year. By analyzing an archive of satellite imagery (from Planet Explorer), we made the major discovery that many of the 2019 fires were actually burning recently deforested areas (MAAP #113). In fact,…
MAAP #118: Real-time Amazon Fire Monitoring App
In time for the next fire season, we are relaunching an improved version of our Amazon real-time fire monitoring app, hosted by Google Earth Engine. When fires burn, they emit gases and aerosols.* A new satellite (Sentinel-5P from the European…
MAAP #113: Satellites Reveal what Fueled Brazilian Amazon Fires
As part of our ongoing coverage, we present two key new findings about the Brazilian Amazon fires that captured the world’s attention in August (see our novel satellite-based methodology below). First, we found that many of the fires, covering over…
MAAP #111: Fires in the Bolivian Amazon – Using Google Earth Engine to Monitor
We begin a new series on how to harness the power of the cloud to improve real-time monitoring in the Amazon and beyond. As the amount of data from satellite images has skyrocketed, so have the challenges of research teams…