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

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Fires and Smoke Haze in Southwest of Kalimantan Location map shows southwest part of Kalimantan, Indonesia. The yellow box indicate the position of the image. Click on the images for enlarged views.

	17 August 1997 Smoke plumes rise from fire scattered over the hills and planes of this corner of Kalimantan. The fire at the lower right corner appears to be on irregular small plots of farm land, while the others in the upper half of the image could be forest fires. The image shown covers about 40km by 30km. Image size : 450 X 315 pixels (16K) Enlarged view : 75K
	22 August 1997 The burning continues. Smoke haze has become rather thick over some of the areas. Note the large areas of forest (east and west of the centre of the image) burnt within just five days. Image size : 450 X 315 pixels (12K) Enlarged view : 51K

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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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