GFMC: Mato Grosso
Firesin Brazil
30 July 2004
Latest Satellite Scene from MODIS:
Aqua Satellite
29 July 2004
17:00 UTC
(Image based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC)
See the following media articles:
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Estimates of Amazon’s greenhouse gas ‘too low’ (published by: ENN, 30 July 2004)
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Data Show Amazon Still ‘Lungs of the World’ (published by: Planet Ark, 30 July 2004)
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Brazilian Amazon may become savanna: scientist (published by: TerraDaily, 28 July 2004)
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Amazon fires change weather, speed deforestation (published by: ENN, 28 July 2004)
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Amazon burning makes Brazil a leading polluter (published by: Planet Ark, 20 July 2004)
Maps with a summary of the occurence of vegetation fires in Brazil and in most of South America are prepared and released by CPTEC/INPE in the Internet soon after the overpasses of the NOAA-series meteorological satellites, whose AVHRR images are used in the detection. Source: http://www.cptec.inpe.br/products/queimadas/
Each red dot in the map shows a pixel with temperatures of some hundred degrees C, normally associated only to active fires. The table on the right side of the map shows the total number of fire pixels dectected by state and by country, with the percentage corresponding to the cloud cover in each region, where the detection of fires was precluded.
Geographical coordinateos of all vegetation fires detected in the AVHRR/NOAA images are available at CPTEC/INPE, and are distributed in near-real-time to registered users. Further information can be obtained with aless@cptec.inpe.br, or in the phone number ++55(12)560-9261.
For more information, also in portugese, see the webpage: http://www.cptec.inpe.br/products/queimadas/info_mapa.htm
Additionally PROARCO (Programa de Prevenção e Controle de Queimadas e Incêndios Florestais na Amazônia Legal) is providing a daily update at: http://www2.ibama.gov.br/proarco/relatorio/boletimaml.doc.
For more details see daily fire situation updates of Brazil and neighbouring countries:
https://gfmc.online/current/archive/br/2001/10/br_10082001.htm
More information on Queimadas
http://www.ambientebrasil.com.br/composer.php3?base=./florestal/index.html&conteudo=./florestal/click/queimada.html