{"id":15022,"date":"2026-08-08T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:01:05","slug":"europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15022","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Jeremy Hsu<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 7, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The wildfires afflicting communities across the world can now be tracked more easily by anyone using Europe\u2019s free and open satellite imagery service\u2014all thanks to a wildfire visualization script originating from nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu\/\">Copernicus Browser<\/a> provides free access to the latest satellite imagery taken by the European Space Agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/The_Sentinel_missions\">Sentinel satellites<\/a> for the European Union\u2019s Earth observation program. The three satellites of the Sentinel-2 mission have proven especially useful for <a href=\"https:\/\/forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu\/\">wildfire monitoring<\/a> by providing multi-spectral imaging at resolutions as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthdata.nasa.gov\/data\/instruments\/sentinel-2-msi\">granular as 10 meters<\/a> in visible light and near-infrared bands\u2014and the Copernicus Browser previously offered 10 default visualization layers using different combinations of spectral bands.<\/p>\n<p>Now Copernicus Browser has also added a straightforward \u201cwildfires\u201d visualization layer for Sentinel-2 imagery that went live on August 4. Anyone clicking on this layer while looking at a wildfire location can see active fires in white or yellow, burning vegetation in red, and burned landscapes in dark brown or black.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/08\/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/08\/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/08\/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hsu &bull; August 7, 2026 The wildfires afflicting communities across the world can now be tracked more easily by anyone using Europe\u2019s free and open satellite imagery service\u2014all thanks to a wildfire visualization script originating from nearly a decade ago. The Copernicus Browser provides free access to the latest satellite imagery taken by the<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15022\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}