Chandigarh, Nov. 6 -- The International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST) has launched Fire Watch, a multi-satellite online dashboard, offering a more complete picture of crop residue burning.

Fire Watch, accessible through https://firewatch.iforest.global/, tracks three key measures - the number and location of active fires, the time of day when burning is most intense, and the area affected over the burning season, according to a press release.

It currently covers Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with more states planned for the next phase.

Dr Chandra Bhushan, CEO of iFOREST, said current monitoring relied on fire counts from polar-orbiting satellites, which gave an incomplete picture of...