By Vince Condarcuri
Publication Date: 2025-11-25 19:36:00
In 2024, Bolivia experienced some of the worst wildfires in its history. More precisely, the amount of land scorched was equal in size to Greece. The main causes were land clearing, pasture burning, and a severe drought during what was the hottest year ever recorded worldwide. This disaster is just one of many extreme events featured in a new global dataset called ImpactMesh that has been released by tech giant IBM (IBM) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Interestingly, ImpactMesh is a massive collection of satellite images that shows the effects of major floods and wildfires from the past 10 years. The dataset includes both “before” and “after” images taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites. To make the data more useful, it combines three types of images:
- Regular optical pictures
- Radar scans that can see through clouds and smoke
- Maps showing changes in the land’s elevation
Thanks to this dataset, IBM and…
