Friday, January 25, 2008

Fires in Cambodia seen from NASA MODIS Satellite

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[KI-Media note: The Tonle Sap is seen in dark green on the center left]

When the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Southeast Asia on January 20, 2008, the sensor captured this image of the onset of the agricultural burning season in Cambodia. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. Like other countries in Southeast Asia, Cambodia’s climate is dominated by the monsoon, with rainy, humid weather from June through November, and dry weather from November to May.

During the dry season, fires are widespread across the agricultural land in the heart of the country as farmers clear brush and the remains of the season’s harvest. Though it is not necessarily immediately hazardous, such large-scale burning can have a strong impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What are the white stuffs?

Anonymous said...

Cloud stupid, ever fly?
Coud from the burning and that OK we did it over 10,000 of years! dude, whatch for your Atomic Reactor (evil clean)!

Anonymous said...

Where is the jungle? No more forest?

Do mair ah PHD Hun Xen! Skwack! SkwacK!
( if he can read Vietnamese with out scholling)

Anonymous said...

Thoso Excellencies PHD Bandits General Multi-Stars do ot understand /how to read Satellite Images/and or Maps please interprete for them.....

Achar Knoy

Anonymous said...

Looking at the Maps or satellite images and Air phots as well for Our Leaders it seems to Conduct the Oxes and Cows/or Buffalo to watch Video-TV-movies etc..
They understand only Dollar Srey Sra as Runrot as well

Anonymous said...

Looking at the Maps or satellite images and Air phots as well for Our Leaders it seems to Conduct the Oxes and Cows/or Buffalo to watch Video-TV-movies etc..
They understand only Dollar Srey Sra as Runrot as well