{"id":363392,"date":"2017-08-23T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0d868662141239c8bba9e52545a46904"},"modified":"2017-08-23T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:31:00","slug":"kalamos-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=363392","title":{"rendered":"Kalamos fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/08\/kalamos_fires\/17122698-1-eng-GB\/Kalamos_fires_small.gif\" width=\"1350\" height=\"759\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWildfires have broken out across southern Europe as a heatwave grips the region. This animation created using images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites show the live blaze and aftermath of wildfires that devastated an area about 35 km northeast of Athens, Greece, in mid-August.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images from 14 August show the blaze and billowing smoke, which extends far south pushed by strong winds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVegetation appears red in the false-colour images from 19 August, and burn scars covering an area of over 2900 hectares appear black.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSatellites like Sentinel-2 allow these crisis situations to be carefully monitored and mapped, at both regional and global scales. Sentinel-2 imagery combined with data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Contributing_Missions_overview\">Copernicus contributing missions<\/a> are being used to produce maps of this recent fire through the Copernicus Emergency Management Service for damage assessment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSummer wildfires are common in Greece. Earlier in August, Sentinel-2 captured smoke and burn scars on the island of Kythira. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2017\/08\/Kythira_wildfires\">See the images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires have broken out across southern Europe as a heatwave grips the region. This animation created using images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites show the live blaze and aftermath of wildfires that devastated an area about 35 k&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363393,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363392\/revisions\/363393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}