Blazes seen across Kingdom

[geovalin]

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

Recent satellite images from NASA have captured a high number of fires blazing across Cambodia this season, illustrating what one forestry official called a chronic inability to deal with the Kingdom’s numerous illegally set fires, a problem exacerbated by especially dry El Niño conditions.

The images also conform to the trend over the past decade of Cambodia registering one of the highest numbers of “hot-spots” in the region, according to NASA Earth Observation Satellite imagery.

The imagery, collected by two orbiting satellites, reveals where and just how many fires might be burning on a given day, a tool also used by officials at the Forestry Administration to investigate fires that may be caused by illegal activities.

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[Tywais]

I've been noticing this increase for the last several days.

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/firemap/

[cooked]

I've been noticing this increase for the last several days.

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https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/firemap/

There are much less fires on that map in Myanmar than in Thailand. Blaming the smog in Chang Mai on the Burmese hardly seems plausible.