Fire disrupting events are frequent in the mediterranean area, a phenomenon which deserves attention in relation to human threats and climate change.
The Sentinel-2 constellation by the European Space Agency (ESA) provides multispectral images with revisit time of 5 days.
The evolution of the fires expansion on three sadly known hot-spots of 2023 summer Rhodes, Corfu (Greece) and Palermo (Italy) has been tracked (method presented here DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3301056).
The results illustrated in the three maps below are self explanatory, giving evidence of the dramatic nature of this’ year fires.
Palermo fires up to July 31, 2023
![palermo_BA](https://rsde.fbk.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/palermo_BA.png)
Rhodes fires up to July 28, 2023
![rhodes_BA](https://rsde.fbk.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/rhodes_BA.png)
Corfu fires up to July 30, 2023
![corfu_BA](https://rsde.fbk.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/corfu_BA.png)