Overview

Fig 1.1.6.1.1: Clearing savanna in Africa by burning.

Image: NASA Earth Observatory

As noted previously, it is estimated that biomass burning contributes approximately 15% of the world's emissions of NOx.

This step-by-step presentation illustrates the way that remote sensing from space, as a result of its delivery of almost contemporaneous data on a global scale can monitor an important large-scale source of NO.

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