by Jerónimo | Jun 1, 2022 | BlazeMap™
Australia is widely known to have an extensive fire season during Summer. However, in recent years it is common that the fire season extends to Autumn or even Winter each year. In fact, a recent study suggests that the burned area during this season has increased...
by Jerónimo | Apr 7, 2022 | BlazeMap™
According to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, fire activity in the first months of 2022 in South America has been the most intense since the beginning of the study, in 2003. What is the meaning of this? Sadly, the meaning of this is that we can...
by Lukas | Apr 4, 2022 | BlazeMap™
What happened? Over the summer of 2021, over one million hectares of forest burned down east of Lake Winnipeg (Ojibwe: ᐑᓂᐸᑲᒥᐠᓴᑯ˙ᑯᐣ) in Canada. The affected area straddling the Manitoba-Ontario border is mostly inhabited by First Nations. Over 8 000 residents from nine...
by Lukas | Dec 17, 2021 | BlazeMap™
We made some updates to our map of wildfire burned areas in Sakha Republic (Siberia) that we published in November. We mapped an area of 92.62 million hectares at 40 meter resolution. For our study area we chose a region around the city of Yakutsk where many wildfires...
by Lukas | Nov 25, 2021 | BlazeMap™
Due to climate change, natural disasters have proliferated in the last months. We saw deadly floods this summer in Germany and Belgium. And British Columbia (Canada) is currently battered by storms that have cut off some three million inhabitants of the Lower Mainland...
