Loading the season from orbit
Patiala–Kaithal border belt · kharif 2025
Clean fields wrongly flagged (lower is better)
Satellite pictures and burn patchesCopernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), read from the AWS Open Data registry and processed by Saakshi.
Fire alertsNASA FIRMS, VIIRS and MODIS, 2025 season.
Basemap, place names and close-up imageryEsri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.
Boundaries© OpenStreetMap contributors.
Smoke estimateAbout 2.6 t of straw per acre, 80% of it burnt, about 9 kg of PM2.5 per tonne burnt (published range about 8–12 kg): ≈ 46 kg per burnt hectare. An estimate for scale, not a measurement.