{"id":2929,"date":"2021-06-22T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2025-03-28T06:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:52:41","slug":"monitoring-fire-activity-in-the-table-mountain-national-park-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/monitoring-fire-activity-in-the-table-mountain-national-park-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Fire Activity in the Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fires continue to have a devastating impact on Africa\u2019s landscape with the continent accounting for roughly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/tech\/science\/nasa-calls-africa-fire-continent-is-home-to-70-percent-of-all-the-worlds-fires-7247161.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70% of the total area burned by fire around the world.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 Table Mountain Fire was a significant natural disaster for Cape Town,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-56793317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burning through historic buildings and causing a mass evacuation.<\/a>&nbsp;The Digital Earth Africa Map is uniquely placed for industry professionals to identify and track fire-damaged areas, highlighting patterns for future predictions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By applying Digital Earth Africa\u2019s Sentinel-2 false colour data layer and adjusting the time stamp, users can observe the area before and after the fires, gaining further insight into the severity of the impact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pasted-image-0-same-size_0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2931\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/final-.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2930\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cape Town Pictured before and after the Table Mountain fire.&nbsp;<br>Use the Digital Earth Africa Map for interactive comparison&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.digitalearth.africa\/#share=s-7zwstAwu5xxKgVIq6ZUXLhkJ1Im\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Equipped with this information, policymakers can mitigate the impact of fires across the continent and assess disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Want to learn more about fire mapping in Africa? Explore how DE Africa was able to assist in the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/mapping-forest-fires-in-mount-kenya\/\"><em>rapid assessment of the impact of fires in Mount Kenya<\/em><\/a><em>. Also, dive into the data in action yourself using the Burnt Area Mapping notebook available in the Digital Earth Africa\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sandbox.digitalearth.africa\/hub\/login?next=%2Fhub%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>\u0635\u0646\u062f\u0648\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0645\u0644<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Expand your geospatial knowledge today with our free&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalearthafrica.org\/platform-resources\/training-and-help\"><em>training program<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fires continue to have a devastating impact on Africa\u2019s landscape with the continent accounting for roughly&nbsp;70% of the total area burned by fire around the world.&nbsp; The 2021 Table Mountain Fire was a significant natural disaster for Cape Town,&nbsp;burning through historic buildings and causing a mass evacuation.&nbsp;The Digital Earth Africa Map is uniquely placed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"audience":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-use-cases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalearthafrica.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}