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Burning Forests: Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage
The article discusses tools like NASA's fire-tracking tool, Copernicus Browser, and QGIS for analyzing wildfire damage, using Sicily's Zingaro Nature Reserve as a case study. It highlights the use of satellite imagery (Landsat, Sentinel-2) and vegetation health indices to assess burn severity and track fire recurrence linked to climate change.
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