A fire spreads in the biggest refugees camp at Kutupalong, Bangladesh

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 05 January 2016
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 14 March 2021
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 24 March 2021
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Fire, emergency, refugees camp, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Burma.
Fig. 1 - S2 (24.03.2021) - A fire has spread in Kutupalong Rohingyas refugees camp, in Bangladesh near the border with Myanmar.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (24.03.2021) - Normalised Burnt Ratio - It happened at the same time multiple fires happened in the region.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (05.01.2016) - The two refugee camps of Kutupalong & Nayapara had a combined population of ~34 000 registered refugees in July 2017.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (24.03.2021) - On 30.06.2020, the Kutupalong refugee camp and expansion site had a combined population of 600 000.
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Fig. 5 - S2 (24.03.2021) - Difference of Normalised Burnt Ratio - The fire left 15 dead and some 400 missing, and displaced over 45 000, mostly Rohingya refugees.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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