In regions prone to wildfires, the WATEX™ System is a key tool to prevent those fires and promote reforestation.
CONTEXT
As a consequence of climate change and confronted by extremely high temperatures in January 2017, Chile faced 124 mega-fires of unprecedented violence, which devastated 366,520 ha in a few days.
Apart from the ecological disaster for the fauna and flora, 11 people were killed, 30 injured, 1,100 evacuated and 1,047 houses were damaged.
In the Maule region near Empredado, the WATEX™ imagery scanned after the fires will indicate the most favorable areas to start reforestation, optimizing the size of the investment, as was the case in Chile after January 2017.