Detection of forest and peat fires using the German TET-1 satellite
Vast and disastrous forest and peat fires are currently raging across Sumatra and Borneo putting Indonesia on track to be one of the world’s largest carbon emitters this year ﴾Global Emission Fire Database 1 ). Peat fires burn smoldering and produce thick haze which drifts as far as to neighboring countries Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand (Figure 1,2)...
