Satellites · Detection · Perimeters
Wildfire Remote Sensing & Mapping
How thermal detections, satellite observations, mapped perimeters and burn-severity products become evidence—and where their limits begin.
What does a satellite hotspot actually show, and what does it not prove about the final fire perimeter, cause or impact?
How Tecnobosque frames the subject
Remote sensing provides powerful observations at different spatial, temporal and spectral scales. Active-fire detections identify thermal anomalies, not final perimeters. Fire Radiative Power estimates emitted energy at observation time, not total incident energy. Burned-area and severity products are post-event interpretations generated from different sensors and methods. A mapped perimeter can come from aircraft, field mapping, incident GIS or remote sensing and should always retain its timestamp and source. The same map symbol can therefore represent very different evidence objects.
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ConceptActive Fire DetectionExplore →
ConceptThermal AnomalyExplore →
ConceptFire Radiative PowerExplore →
ConceptFire PerimeterExplore →
ConceptSatellite HotspotExplore →
ConceptNormalized Burn Ratio (NBR)Explore →
ConceptDifferenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR)Explore →
ConceptBurn SeverityExplore →
ConceptLandsatExplore →
ConceptSentinel-2Explore →
ConceptVIIRSExplore →
ConceptMODISExplore →
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