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Satellite data reveals the start of Canada's wildfire season

Zhizhin, Mikhail
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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Ziv, Kristin
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Bazilian, Morgan
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2024-05-16
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/179095
 https://doi.org/10.25676/11124/179095
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Payne Institute Earth Observation Group Research Associate Mikhail Zhizhin, Communications Associate Kristin Ziv, Senior Research Associate Christopher Elvidge, and Director Morgan Bazilian write about how as of May 14, 2024, there are 143 active wildfires in Canada, and 39 are out of control, according to Canadian experts and officials. The Earth Observation Group has calculated the temperatures and spatial extent of active burning across Canada with their Nightfire algorithm applied to data collected by NOAA's Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Suite (VIIRS).
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