Record-breaking fires in the Brazilian Amazon associated with uncontrolled deforestation

Affiliations

• ¹ Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil. [email protected].
• ² Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.
• ³ Institute of Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁴ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil.
• ⁶ Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
• ⁷ Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ⁸ National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ⁹ General Coordination of Earth Science, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
• ¹⁰ College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.