Eyes in the sky are becoming an increasingly important tool for boots on the ground when it comes to fighting wildfires as data from a growing number of satellites give firefighters new tools to predict fire behaviour and analyze its consequences.
“You can tell if dropping water or fire retardant on that part of the fire would work or if you’d be wasting your time.”
“It’s an estimate based on radiative power,” said Mark Parrington of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Bonn, Germany. “There are various conversion factors which say for this type of vegetation, this is the amount of carbon and particulate matter you expect.”
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