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To: alan holman who wrote (27462)11/2/1997 9:25:00 PM
From: alan holman  Read Replies (1) of 28369
 
Newspaper's Satellite Pictures Show Who's Starting Fires

Oct 1--Singapore's leading newspaper, the Straits Times, used a stunning series of six color photos to make the point that fires causing choking smog across
Southeast Asia are no accident.

"The fires raging in Kalimantan and Sumatra appear to have been started deliberately to clear huge tracts of land on plantations as well as on small farms," the
Straits Times said.

The satellite pictures, including two before-and-after shots, showed that forests were being cleared to make way for plantations, with fire employed as the means of
getting rid of the natural vegetation. They also showed the fires continuing into September, by which time the smog -- affecting Malaysia, Thailand and the
Philippines as well as Singapore and Indonesia -- had hit health-damaging levels.

The report says the pictures, taken by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Center for Remote Imaging Sensing and Processing, can pinpoint the fires within
10 to 20 meters. They are precise enough that "by just looking at the photographs, Indonesian authorities should be able to tell who owns a piece of land which has
been cleared by fire, or from which plumes of smoke rise," the paper said.

"With these pictures, the fire-starters cannot escape. If the Indonesian authorities need help, we can give it to them," a director of the NUS center said.
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