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Boots on the ground, eyes in the sky: satellites increasingly used to fight wildfires
Eyes in the sky are becoming an increasingly important tool for boots on the ground when it comes to fighting wildfires, experts say, as data from a growing number of satellites give firefighters new tools to predict fire behaviour and analyze its consequences.
“It’s being more and more adopted,” said wildfire expert Mike Flannigan of Thompson Rivers University.
“In the old days, almost no one was using satellites. Now they’re being used more and more.”
The last decade has seen a huge jump in the number Earth observation satellites, driven by cheaper technology and the entry of private industry.