SPOT Satellite Images of Forest/Plantation Fires and Smoke Haze over Southeast Asia

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Fires and Smoke Haze over an inland area in Kalimantan Location map shows the west side of Kalimantan. The yellow box indicate the position of the image.

	18 August 1997 A very hazy scene of an inland area in Kalimantan. The image shown is a reduced resolution SPOT quicklook image covering about 60km by 60km Image size : 500 X 500 pixels (21K)
	23 August 1997 Image of the same area taken 5 days later. Beside the river, two fresh plumes of smoke is clearly visible. Such inland burning can often escape detection from satellite imagery because they can be masked by the thick haze covering the area. Image size : 500 X 500 pixels (33K)

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Another Forest Fires scene. Location map shows another fire scene about 30km south of the above scenes. The yellow box indicate the position of the image.

18 August 1997 On the right side of the image, a fire causing a plume of smoke can be spotted under the thick haze. Image size : 500 X 500 pixels (24K)

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All images are acquired by the SPOT satellites. Copyright of images belongs to CNES. Images are acquired and processed by the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, National University of Singapore.

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