Burning Forests: Osint Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage
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- NASA's fire-tracking tool provides heat signatures and approximate locations for wildfire detection.
- Copernicus Browser uses Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and false-colour composites to visualize fire spread and assess burn severity via the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR).
- The 2025 wildfire in Sicily's Zingaro Nature Reserve burned over 50 km², with moderate severity, affecting more than 95% of the protected area.
- QGIS is used for in-depth analysis, combining satellite data with protected area maps to quantify burned regions and historical fire patterns.
- The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) tracks historical wildfires, showing the 2025 fire as more extensive in the reserve than previous events in 2017 and 2020.