Actions of the country’s mapping organization following the fire of elite forests – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to the Mehr news agency, citing the country’s mapping organization, following the fire in the elite forests of Marzanabad, Chalus city, Mazandaran province, following the request of the country’s crisis management organization to use the capacity of the country’s mapping organization to determine the coordinates of fire points in order to guide and guide the firefighting team, the operational team of this organization was immediately dispatched to the relevant location in the elite area along with mapping, positioning and orientation equipment, and with the measurements made, the exact coordinates were determined. The UTM of the fire place as the center point of the active fire along with the map of the said location was provided to the crisis management team.

The Mapping Organization of the country, as the custodian of map and location information, and considering its ability to monitor environmental hazards, monitored the extent of this fire during the period of November 10th to December 1st using remote sensing techniques and processing satellite images.

According to the results obtained from VIIRS satellite images, during this 20-day period, the progress of the fire was significantly towards the east, which fortunately, after the fire extinguishing measures, the fire in the area was under the control of the operational forces and is decreasing.