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WHAT HAPPENED RECENTLY
- Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas was released recently
- Citing 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.
THE DATA
- 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.
HOW DID ESA GET THIS DATA?
- The answer is Copernicus Programme
- Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme to date.
- This initiative is headed by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).
- Its cost during 1998 to 2020 are estimated at 6.7 billion euros with around €4.3bn spent in the period 2014 to 2020 and shared between the EU (66%) and ESA (33%) with benefits of the data to the EU economy estimated at roughly 30 billion euros through 2030.
NOTES
- Sentinel: ESA is developing a new family of satellites, called Sentinels, specifically for the operational needs of the Copernicus programme. The Sentinels will provide a unique set of observations, starting with the all-weather, day and night radar images.
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