Monitoring wildfires from space is crucial for understanding their impact on climate, including the release of greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence Earth’s system.
This data-driven Little Picture uses satellite data to illustrate the annual pattern of burned area for European countries between 2001–2020. The size of each circle represents the burned area for the individual countries of Europe.
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