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 We download the reprojected data from UW SSEC's [RealEarth program](https://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/).
 Each image is 128x128 pixels, centered at (34.1, -118.4). Each pixel is 1.0 km.
 The fires sometimes disappear from view due to cloud cover.
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+The code combines the two satellites' data for increased resolution.
+It currently measures the areas of hotspots. 
+If I have more time I might try doing some other measurements,
+but I also wrote this to demonstrate the accessibility of citizen science.