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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
Dhananjay Khadilkar

How satellite technology is being used in France to fight forest fires

On 18 August 2021, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the wildfire currently affecting the Vilia area outside Athens. © contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

With climate change and the consequent increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves, summers are now characterised by forest fires. In recent years, to track, trace and ultimately control forest fires, the French space agency CNES is assisting firefighters by offering them help from space.

According to Helene de Boissezon of the French space agency CNES, forest fires have been analyzed using satellite images for more than two decades.

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