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Satellite Images of Environmental Disaster in Southeast AsiaAll across South-East Asia, people are struggling to cope with the ecological and health disaster caused by hundreds of forest fires raging in Indonesia. There is an obvious need for scientifically credible and timely information on the extent of the problem. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through the North American node of its Global Resource Information Database (GRID) located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has assembled available satellite data from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Australian Department of Land Administration, Western Australian State Government. A series of unprocessed satellite images, beginning 4 August, shows the growing spread of the smoke throughout the region's atmosphere. Data from the meteorological satellite has helped locate the raging forest fires and resultant massive smog haze over much of the region. The color images generated from infrared and visible-wavelength data, routinely transmitted by one of the NOAA polar-orbiting satellites, depict the fires in southeastern Borneo with their massive smoke plumes spreading over Indonesia and most of the region. Data from the meteorological satellite has helped locate the raging forest fires and resultant massive smog haze over much of the region. The color images generated from infrared and visible-wavelength data, routinely transmitted by one of the NOAA polar-orbiting satellites, depict the fires in southeastern Borneo with their massive smoke plumes spreading over Indonesia and most of the re gion. Supporting information related to regional land cover, topography, river basin boundaries and population distribution are also available. [ Data Sets | Discussion Papers | Related WWW Sites ] Southeast Asia Data SetsVisit the following sites to obtain further information and images.
Rivers, Cities & Political BoundariesThe rivers, cities, and political boundaries are from Environmental System Research Institute's ArcWorld 1:3M database. Discussion PapersGlobal Forest Fire Watch: Wildfire Potential, Detection, Monitoring, and Assessment
Southeast Asia Related WWW SitesVisit the following related sites: NOAA's Defense Meterological Satellite Program (DMSP). NOAA's NOAA's Significant Event Imagery server. Meteorological Service Singapore (Haze) SPOT Images of Indonesian Forest Fires CEOS - Committee on Earth Observation Satellites For more information, please contact:
Information Note 1997/29
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