Hundreds of fires are set every year during the dry seasonin Central Africa. This true color image from the Sea-viewing WideField-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) shows dozens of smoke plumesin the Democratic Republic of the Congo on June 29, 2000. Residentsburn away scrub and brush annually in the woody savanna toclear land for farming and grazing.
For more information, visit the SeaWiFS Home Page,
Global Fire Monitoring Fact Sheet, and
4km2 Fire Data
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Image Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
