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Fires in Algeria: Natural Hazards
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Fires in Algeria: Natural Hazards
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Scores of forest fires were burning in northern Algeria in late August 2007. Although much of the country is occupied by the Sahara Desert, www.worldwildlife.or g/wildworld/profiles /terrestrial/pa/pa12 13_full.html Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and chaparral occur on the Atlas Mountains that line the coast. On August 29, 2007, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite captured this image of the fires billowing thick clouds of brownish-gray smoke over the Mediterranean Sea. The smoke was so thick that the capital, Algiers, is not visible beneath it.
According to news reports, several people died, dozens of families had to evacuate their homes, and the number of people seeking medical attention for respiratory and allergy problems dramatically increased as a result of the fires. Thousands of soldiers were deployed to help battle the fires. Cooler weather and firefighting efforts brought many fires under control by August 31.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Blida western and rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Lampedusa eastern Algerian coastline in additional resolutions.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Scores of forest fires were burning in northern Algeria in late August 2007. Although much of the country is occupied by the Sahara Desert, www.worldwildlife.or g/wildworld/profiles /terrestrial/pa/pa12 13_full.html Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and chaparral occur on the Atlas Mountains that line the coast. On August 29, 2007, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite captured this image of the fires billowing thick clouds of brownish-gray smoke over the Mediterranean Sea. The smoke was so thick that the capital, Algiers, is not visible beneath it.
According to news reports, several people died, dozens of families had to evacuate their homes, and the number of people seeking medical attention for respiratory and allergy problems dramatically increased as a result of the fires. Thousands of soldiers were deployed to help battle the fires. Cooler weather and firefighting efforts brought many fires under control by August 31.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Blida western and rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Lampedusa eastern Algerian coastline in additional resolutions.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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What -- Atlas
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What -- Atlas
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What -- Aqua
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What -- Aqua
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Where -- Mediterranean Sea
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Where -- Mediterranean Sea
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Where -- Algeria
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Where -- Algeria
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Where -- Algiers
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Where -- Algiers
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Atlas
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Aqua
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Mediterranean Sea
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Mediterranean Sea
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Algeria
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Algiers
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Algeria_AMO_2007241
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Algeria_AMO_2007241
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-08-02 06:56:33
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2011-08-02 06:56:33
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2011-08-02 06:56:33
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2011-08-02 06:56:33
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/Algeria_AMO_20 07241/Algeria_AMO_20 07241_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/Algeria_AMO_20 07241/Algeria_AMO_20 07241_lrg.jpg
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Algeria_AMO_2007241_ lrg.jpg
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Algeria_AMO_2007241_ lrg.jpg
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2007-08-29
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2007
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eng
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