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  2. 2024 Brazil wildfires - Wikipedia

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    In 2024, 62,131 wildfires detected by the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) burned an estimated 46,101,798 hectares (113,920,020 acres) of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Amazon rainforest, and the Cerrado. [1]

  3. Fire Information for Resource Management System - Wikipedia

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    Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is a free web mapping platform offered by NASA as part of its Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. It displays active fire locations in near real-time overlaid on a map. [1] [2]

  4. Sphygmomanometer - Wikipedia

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    A sphygmomanometer (/ ˌ s f ɪ ɡ m oʊ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ t ə r / SFIG-moh-mə-NO-mi-tər), also known as a blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, [1] and a mercury or aneroid manometer to measure the pressure.

  5. Aspirating smoke detector - Wikipedia

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    An aspirating smoke detector (ASD) is a system used in active fire protection, consisting of a central detection unit which draws air through a network of pipes to detect smoke. [1] The sampling chamber is based on a nephelometer that detects the presence of smoke particles suspended in air by detecting the light scattered by them in the chamber.

  6. Advanced fire information system - Wikipedia

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    The system provides monitoring of active fire on a web-based map and delivers near real-time alerts to registered users when a fire is detected within their specified areas of interest via email, SMS, XMPP, etc. [1] The system started as a research project at the CSIR Meraka Institute in collaboration with Eskom in 2007. It was then extended to ...

  7. 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires - Wikipedia

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    There are 670 million ha (1.7 billion acres; 6.7 million km 2; 2.6 million sq mi) of Amazon rainforest. [8] Human-driven deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has been a major concern for decades as the rainforest's impact on the global climate has been measured.

  8. 2020 Brazil rainforest wildfires - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 Brazil rainforest wildfires were a series of forest fires that were affecting Brazil, with 44,013 outbreaks of fires registered between January and August in the Amazonas and Pantanal. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Within the Amazon, 6,315 outbreaks of fire were detected in the same period. [ 4 ]

  9. Vital signs - Wikipedia

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    The measurement of these pressures is now usually done with an aneroid or electronic sphygmomanometer. The classic measurement device is a mercury sphygmomanometer, using a column of mercury measured off in millimeters. In the United States and UK, the common form is millimeters of mercury, while elsewhere SI units of pressure are used. There ...