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While Alberta has seen a record number of wildfires this spring, they aren’t the only province experiencing an early start to the season.
Read More »WildFireSat – The Trailer
Spire’s ExactEarth to Support WildFireSat Mission
Spire Global announced that their subsidiary ExactEarth, based in Cambridge, Ontario, has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to “deliver preparatory work for implementation phases of a wildfire monitoring satellite” for the delayed WildFireSat mission.
Read More »Earth and Space – Australia wildfires and algal blooms
Welcome to the first episode of SpaceQ’s newest podcast, Earth and Space, hosted by veteran journalist Elizabeth Howell.
Read More »Tahir Merali on 4pi Lab’s Satellite Constellation for Wildfire Detection
On this weeks episode of the Space Economy podcast I’m taking to Tahir Merali, COO of the startup 4pi Lab who are planning to build a constellation of small satellites in Low Earth Orbit to detect small wildfires.
Read More »CSA contract lets 4pi Labs develop wildfire detection system
A Calgary-based company received a quarter-million dollars from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to test a camera system for detecting wildfires from a suite of orbiting space satellites. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY
Read More »Satellite sees Smoke from Canadian Fires over U.S.
NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-West satellite spotted smoke over the U.S. Mid-West from dozens of fires raging in Canada’s Northwestern Territories.
Read More »NASA Image: Wildfires in Central Canada
Wildfires continue to be a problem in Canada. Currently in the central region, including the Northern Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, numerous fires were spotted by the Aqua satellite on this image captured on August 12, 2013.
Read More »Fires in Quebec
On June 19, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of a large wildfire burning in western Quebec, near the shoreline of Hudson Bay.
Read More »Fires in Northern Saskatchewan
NASA’s Aqua satellite collected this natural-color image with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on June 05, 2013. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red. All three fires noted here are more than 100 hectares in size (>247 acres).
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