These alerts, delivered within 20 minutes of detection, have the ability to reach hundreds of District Forest Officers and local community representatives across all districts in Nepal. With each satellite overpass, if a forest fire is detected, the system delivers mobile phone text messages to subscribers in the affected area. The system carries out automated data acquisition, processing, and reporting on locations of active fires present during the satellites' twice-daily overpasses, automatically adding important information such as administrative units, land cover type, elevation, and slope. Once a forest fire is detected from space, a text message alert is sent directly to people living in affected communities providing critical information on the size and location of the fire. To address this challenge, SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in close collaboration with the Department of Forests of Nepal, developed a satellite-based forest fire detection and monitoring system that uses Earth observation data with large-area repetitive coverage for near real-time fire detection, monitoring, and burnt area assessments.
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