{"id":87015,"date":"2019-10-31T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11287"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:19:19","slug":"sentinel-3-world-fire-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sentinel-3-world-fire-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to the data from its Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas,the European Space Agency(ESA) has announced that compared to August 2018,there were almost five times as many wildfires across the world in August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission has recorded 79,000 fires in August this year compared to just over 16,000 fires detected during the same period last year.<\/li><li>The data revealed that 49% of the fires were detected in Asia, around 28% were detected in South America, 16% in Africa, and the remaining were recorded in North America, Europe and Oceania.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Sentinel-3:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sentinel-3 is an Earth observation satellite constellation developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the Copernicus Programme.<\/li><li>Sentinel-3 uses the satellite data to plot the number of fires occurring monthly.<\/li><li>The sensors on satellites measure thermal infrared radiation to take the temperature of Earth\u2019s land surfaces.This information is used to detect and monitor the heat emitted by the fires.<\/li><li>This data is important as fires have a significant impact on global atmospheric emissions with biomass burning contributing to the global budgets of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Copernicus Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme till date.This initiative is headed by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).<\/li><li>The programme aims to provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information to improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security.<\/li><li>ESA is developing a new family of satellites called Sentinels specifically for the operational needs of the Copernicus programme.&nbsp;<\/li><li>At present,three complete two-satellite constellations are in orbit plus an additional single satellite, Sentinel-5P.<\/li><li>The Sentinels will provide a unique set of observations, starting with the all-weather, day and night radar images.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to the data from its Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas,the European Space Agency(ESA) has announced that compared to August 2018,there were almost five times as many wildfires across the world in August 2019. Facts: Key takeaways from the study: The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission has recorded 79,000 fires in August this year compared to just over&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sentinel-3-world-fire-atlas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4743,4744,4745],"class_list":["post-87015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-copernicus-programme","tag-sentinel-3","tag-world-fire-atlas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}