Hundreds of wildfires in Greater Kabylia region, Algeria

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 28 June 2020 at 10:25:59 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 03 July 2020 at 10:30:31 UTC
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Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 07 August 2020 at 10:25:59 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Wildfires, emergency, agriculture, vegetation, drought, coastal, Algeria
Fig. 1 - S2 (28.06.2020) - Situation by the end of June.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (07.08.220) - Halfway through summer, over 250 new burnt areas have been found, mostly near inhabited areas.
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Few large wildfires opened the season, followed later by many smaller. Since the end of July, there are still many fires but they also grew in size.
Fig. 3 - S2 - Burnt areas evidenced by a multidate processing.
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Fig. 4 - S2 - The colour of the polygons show the progression from the oldest (blue) to the most recently burnt areas (purple).
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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