Large wildfires in Victoria state, Australia

Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 01 March 2019 at 23:55:21 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 02 March 2019 at 23:29:10 UTC
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI NO2 acquired on 03 March 2019 at 03:19:12 UTC
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI AER_AI acquired on 03 March 2019 at 03:19:12 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 04 March 2019 at 00:11:09 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Emergency, natural disaster, wildfire, weather, climate change, Australia
Fig. 1 - S3 SLSTR (01.03.2019 23:55) - S6,S5,S2 colour composite - Multiple large wildfires happened near Melbourne in early March.
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Fig. 2 - S3 OLCI (02.03.2019 23:29) - 20,16,3 colour composite - It follows an austral summer marked by record heat.
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Fig. 3 - S5P TROPOMI (03.03.2019 03:19) - NO₂ total column - Wildfires only stopped after a week of burning hunger.
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Fig. 4 - S5P TROPOMI (03.03.2019 03:19) - Aerosol index - Resulting smoke and gas spread well over a thousand kilometers.
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Fig. 5 - S2 (04.03.2019 ~00:11) - 12,11,4 colour composite - Hundreds of square kilometers of forest burnt in the process.
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