Southern European night-time fire trend

The cumulative monthly fire occurrence according to data from the World Fire Atlas for Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal over the last seven years.

The dashboard uses night-time data from the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) on board the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite. Working like a thermometer in the sky, the sensor measures thermal infrared radiation to take the temperature of Earth's land surfaces which is used to detect the fires.

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