According to the data of satellite monitoring in the first ten days of may, the number of fires in the Moscow region and neighbouring regions was a record low compared to the previous decade.
specialists of the Department of satellite monitoring technologies of space research Institute analyzed data collected from space, in eight regions of the Central district: Vladimir, Tver, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula and Yaroslavl. Only from 1st to 10th may there have been 73 fire. For comparison, from 2010 to 2019 minimum number of fires registered in the same period was 98 and a maximum of 553. The average recorded 437 fire.
And in all eight areas, the number of fires occurred did not exceed 25 percent of the mean annual values. According to experts, such a sharp decrease in the number of new fires can be directly related to the introduction of the regime of self-isolation of coronavirus. People mostly sit at home.
Information derived from data analysis of the MODIS instruments on the spacecraft, remote sensing from Terra and Aqua (NASA) and processed using methods and technologies developed at IKI RAS and possibilities of collective use Center “IKI-Monitoring” and unique scientific installations “VEGA-Science”.
