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L'Oriental

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Administrative boundaries
High confidence
Nominal confidence

Automated satellite detection (3 VIIRS satellites, about 6 passes a day over Morocco), not verified on the ground. A hotspot can be agricultural burning, an industrial heat source, or a forest fire: the satellite cannot tell them apart. 3-day window.

Click a region to see its available layers. Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima is the first region processed, others follow one by one.

Sources

  • Basemap: Esri World Imagery
  • Admin. boundaries and regional division: official Morocco sources
  • Relief (DEM): SRTM, 30 m resolution (NASA/USGS)
  • Watersheds: extracted from the SRTM DEM
  • Dams: Geoportail's own data
  • Protected areas: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet, WDPA, September 2026
  • Hotspots: data and imagery from NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System), part of LANCE (Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observations), near real-time
  • Cities: geographic landmarks, population from the 2024 census (HCP)

L'Oriental

Detailed data for this region: in preparation.

Basemap: Esri World Imagery satellite imagery. DEM: SRTM, 30 m resolution — major watersheds are extracted from this DEM. Relief and dams: Geoportail's own data. Administrative boundaries and regional division: official Morocco sources. Cities and population/household data: 2024 census (RGPH), Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP).