PARIS, Jan 19 — As Los Angeles firefighters battle remaining hotspots more than a week into deadly blazes, scientists and engineers hope growing availability of satellite data...
Firefighters monitor flames in the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 11. — AFP picas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use codePARIS, Jan 19 — As Los Angeles firefighters battle remaining hotspots more than a week into deadly blazes, scientists and engineers hope growing availability of satellite data will help in the future.
Satellites here offer high-resolution ground images, but see any given point only briefly as they sweep around the planet. In Los Angeles,"there are satellite observations, but it's very hard to determine — is it my house that's on fire? Where exactly is this?," said WKID Solutions' Natasha Stavros, a wildfire expert who has also worked at NASA.
This means"we're going to learn very quickly that there is more fire on the Earth than we know about today, we're going to find very small fires," Collins predicted. It would take the whole planned swarm of 55, costing a total $400 million, to reach Collins' aim of imaging every point on Earth at least once every 20 minutes.
The system will"deliver ultra-fast wildfire alerts and high-quality thermal data," chief executive Martin Langer said in a statement.Additional data from all these new satellites would be"fantastic", ESA's Albergel said, but the large volume of information can prove problematic.
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