File:Fires on Borneo and Sumatra, Natural Hazards DVIDS750973.jpg
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English: Slash-and-burn forest clearing and open cropland burning on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and in the Kalimantan portion of the island of Borneo are blanketing the region with a pall of haze that has delayed air travel and prompted government officials to distribute gas masks to island residents, according to various news reports. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) image shows the polluted air across Sumatra (left) and Borneo (right) on September 7, 2004. Actively burning fires have been marked with red dots, and a pall of grayish smoke hangs over the region. A Sumatran environmental officer was quoted in the news as reporting that the level of ash, dust and other particles in the air on September 5 and 6 reached 395 and 350 micrograms (a microgram is a millionth of a gram) per cubic meter -- more than three times the safe level of no more than 100 micrograms per cubic meter. In some places visibility is only a few hundred meters. From July through October, people have traditionally used fire to clear forest land for planting and to clear away the previous year's crop stubble to make ready for the new planting season. However, after a devastating burning season associated with a severe El Nino in 1998 destroyed millions of square kilometers of forest, the government has been trying to crack down on the illegal burning with the help of regional governments. The policies have been difficult to enforce, and the problem returns each year. NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC NASA Identifier: aqua_sumatra_07sep04 Unit: NASA |
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Location InfoField | WASHINGTON, DC, US |
Posted InfoField | 19 October 2012, 15:23 |
DVIDS ID InfoField | 750973 |
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Headline | Fires on Borneo and Sumatra: Natural Hazards |
Image title | <p>Slash-and-burn forest clearing and open cropland burning on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and in the Kalimantan portion of the island of Borneo are blanketing the region with a pall of haze that has delayed air travel and prompted government officials to distribute gas masks to island residents, according to various news reports. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) image shows the polluted air across Sumatra (left) and Borneo (right) on September 7, 2004. Actively burning fires have been marked with red dots, and a pall of grayish smoke hangs over the region. </p> <p>A Sumatran environmental officer was quoted in the news as reporting that the level of ash, dust and other particles in the air on September 5 and 6 reached 395 and 350 micrograms (a microgram is a millionth of a gram) per cubic meter -- more than three times the safe level of no more than 100 micrograms per cubic meter. In some places visibility is only a few hundred meters. </p> <p>From July through October, people have traditionally used fire to clear forest land for planting and to clear away the previous year's crop stubble to make ready for the new planting season. However, after a devastating burning season associated with a severe El Nino in 1998 destroyed millions of square kilometers of forest, the government has been trying to crack down on the illegal burning with the help of regional governments. The policies have been difficult to enforce, and the problem returns each year. </p><p>NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC</p> NASA Identifier: aqua_sumatra_07sep04 |
City shown | Washington |
Credit/Provider | U.S. Civilian |
Source | Digital |
Copyright holder | Public Domain |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh |
File change date and time | 10:09, 7 September 2004 |
Color space | sRGB |
Image width | 8,200 px |
Image height | 5,072 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 06:09, 7 September 2004 |
Date metadata was last modified | 06:09, 7 September 2004 |
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Country shown | US |
Original transmission location code | aqua_sumatra_07sep04 |