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Wildfires In Brazil
The 2020 Brazil rainforest wildfires were a series of forest fires that were affecting Brazil, with 44,013 outbreaks of fires registered between January and August in the Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas and Pantanal. Within the Amazon, 6,315 outbreaks of fire were detected in the same period. Within the Pantanal, the volume of fires is equivalent to those of the past six years and there have been actions by NGOs and volunteers to save endangered animals, such as the jaguar. It was expected that the health systems of the Amazon region, already overloaded by the COVID-19 pandemic, would be even more overloaded due to respiratory diseases due to smoke emitted by the wildfires. Expertise carried out points out that the fires in the Pantanal were started by human action and the Environmental Police Station investigates who are possibly responsible. Douglas Morton, head of NASA's Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, considers fires to be "unprecedented". Although the Brazilian governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MODIS
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is a satellite-based sensor used for earth and climate measurements. There are two MODIS sensors in Earth orbit: one on board the Terra (EOS AM) satellite, launched by NASA in 1999; and one on board the Aqua (EOS PM) satellite, launched in 2002. Since 2011, MODIS operations have been supplemented by VIIRS sensors, such as the one aboard Suomi NPP. The systems often conduct similar operations due to their similar designs and orbits (with VIIRS data systems deisgned to be compatible with MODIS), though they have subtle differences contributing to similar but not identical uses. The MODIS instruments were built by Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. They capture data in 36 spectral bands ranging in wavelength from 0.4 μm to 14.4 μm and at varying spatial resolutions (2 bands at 250 m, 5 bands at 500 m and 29 bands at 1 km). Together the instruments image the entire Earth every 1 to 2 days. They are designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitigation Of Climate Change
Mitigation is the reduction of something harmful that has occurred or the reduction of its harmful effects. It may refer to measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of hazards that remain ''in potentia'', or to manage harmful incidents that have already occurred. It is a stage or component of emergency management and of risk management. The theory of mitigation is a frequently used element in criminal law and is often used by a judge to try cases such as murder, where a perpetrator is subject to varying degrees of responsibility as a result of one's actions. Disaster mitigation An all-hazards approach to disaster management considers all known hazards and their natural and anthropogenic potential risks and impacts, with the intention of ensuring that measures taken to mitigate one type of risk do not increase vulnerability to other types of risks. Proactive disaster mitigation (also hazard mitigation) measures are generally more effective than reactive measures in eliminating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Brazil
Events in the year 2020 in Brazil. Incumbents Federal government *President: Jair Bolsonaro *Vice President: Hamilton Mourão Governors * Acre: Gladson Cameli * Alagoas: Renan Filho * Amapa: Waldez Góes * Amazonas: Wilson Lima * Bahia: Rui Costa (politician) * Ceará: Camilo Santana * Distrito Federal: Ibaneis Rocha * Espírito Santo: Renato Casagrande * Goiás: Ronaldo Caiado * Maranhão: Flávio Dino * Mato Grosso: Mauro Mendes * Mato Grosso do Sul: Reinaldo Azambuja * Minas Gerais: Romeu Zema * Pará: Helder Barbalho * Paraíba: João Azevêdo * Paraná: Ratinho Júnior * Pernambuco: Paulo Câmara * Piauí: Wellington Dias * Rio de Janeiro: Wilson Witzel & Cláudio Castro * Rio Grande do Norte: Fátima Bezerra * Rio Grande do Sul: Eduardo Leite * Rondônia: Marcos Rocha * Roraima: Antonio Denarium * Santa Catarina: Carlos Moisés * São Paulo: João Doria * Sergipe: Belivaldo Chagas * Tocantins: Mauro Carlesse Vice governors * Acre: Wherles Fernandes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Rio Doce State Park Wildfire
The 1967 Rio Doce State Park wildfire was a major forest fire that occurred in the Vale do Rio Doce (mesoregion), Rio Doce Valley, located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the 1960s. The Rio Doce State Park ( – PERD), considered to be the largest Atlantic Forest reserve in the state, has according to 2019 data – information prior to the fire stated that there were – distributed between the municipalities of Dionísio, Minas Gerais, Dionísio, Marliéria and Timóteo (municipality), Timóteo. It was created in 1944. In mid-September 1967, during a prolonged drought, a fire of unknown causes was started in the park that lasted over a month and consumed 9,000 hectares of the reserve, managed by the State Forestry Institute ( – IEF). Twelve people died in fighting the flames, after fighters led by Sergeant Agenor Almeida Costa were surrounded by a line of fire on October 18, near the Dom Helvécio Lagoon. It is therefore the second largest forest fire in Brazil in n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
