Fighting of Forest Fires

The Hindu 26-03-18

How the information on a Fire reaches the authorities and ways to improve Fire Fighting:-

This came into picture with the recent tragedy in Theni in Tamil Nadu where 20 trekkers lost their life.

Cause of Fire: Fires are not spontaneous, human beings setoff fires

Relaying information:-
When a fire any where in the world is detected by NASA'S MODIA(Moderate Resoution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and VIIRS (Visible infrared imaging radiometer suite) satellites, the forest survey of india analyses the data by overlaying the digitised boundaries of forest areas to pinpoint the location to the exact forest compartment. The resolution of these satellites are upto 375 m x 375 m, which means that such fires can be detected if their extent is above half thr pixel.i.e about seven hectares.