{"id":1789172,"date":"2020-08-26T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789172"},"modified":"2020-08-26T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:57:44","slug":"tracking-amazon-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/tracking-amazon-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Amazon Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year saw an uptick in fire activity in the Amazon basin. This year a new tool has been released that aims to help classify the fires being observed. The Amazon Dashboard<\/a> classifies each fire as a deforestation fire, a savanna fire, a small clearing and agricultural fire, or an understory forest fire, and tracks whether the fire is in a protected or indigenous territory. NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The fire analysis tool is already bringing new clarity and insight to the 2020 fire season. In July, Brazil announced a 120-day ban<\/a> on fires in the Amazon rainforest; it was presented as an effort to limit ecological damage from fires this year. However, the NASA-led fire analysis indicates that there has been a proliferation of fires in key deforestation hotspots in the southern Amazon states of Par\u00e1, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Previously: Mapping the Amazon Fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year saw an uptick in fire activity in the Amazon basin. This year a new tool has been released that aims to help classify the fires being observed. The Amazon Dashboard classifies each fire… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[897,895,1464,775,487],"class_list":["post-1789172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-amazon-rainforest","tag-brazil","tag-deforestation","tag-fires","tag-wildfires","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787666,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/mapping-the-amazon-fires\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789172,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Amazon Fires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Let\u2019s start with the current situation map from Brazil\u2019s own space agency, the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias (INPE), which I\u2019m surprised is still online. 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It includes fire perimeter and air quality data. (Note: it's glitchy on desktop Safari.) Two Esri maps: a general wildfire map and a map of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Weather and Climate"","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sf-fire-tracker-1024x521.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786074,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/mapping-the-northern-california-wildfires-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789172,"position":2},"title":"Mapping the Northern California Wildfires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The Washington Post maps the largest of the wildfires burning in northern California: the Carr Fire threatening the city of Redding and surrounding communities. 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