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@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ You can see how quickly the fires initially grow — up to a square mile every m
This shows the extreme difficulty of containment.
The code combines the two satellites' data for increased resolution.
It currently measures the areas of hotspots.
It currently measures the areas of hotspots.
If a pixel is registered as "hot" in one frame, that is counted for the next 12 hours
in order to balance the uncertainty under cloud cover vs. the fire actually dying out.
If I have more time I might try doing some other measurements,
but I also wrote in a hurry this to demonstrate the accessibility of citizen science.