Using MERIS Images for Mapping Forest Fire Damage Customer Challenge Forest fires, with the capacity to devastate landscape quickly and totally, are a threat to ecosystem functioning in the areas of biodiversity and hydrology. By releasing carbon dioxide, they can also affect global atmospheric chemistry. A system to map the extent of the damage and plan recovery efforts has become a priority around the world. Solution Achieved Wildfires play a critical role in many aspects related to ecosystem functioning such as biodiversity and hydrology, and they are increasingly a source of concern for environmental protection and security. Biomass burning has been on the rise for decades. In fact, in Europe, the five Mediterranean States endured an astronomical 300% increase of forest fires fr

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