kochi city police investigating the cause of fire on the solid waste treatment plant premises at brahmapuram have proposed that fire anomalies can be properly monitored in the future by subscribing to the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs developed by the national aeronautics and space administration nasaas part of the investigation police had earlier sought the help of nasa to obtain satellite imagery of the plant but they only received low resolution images which were not adequate for detecting the starting point of the fire police had also inspected footage from six cctv cameras at the plant which too did not have proper coverage of the plant which is spread across over 100 acres according to a senior officer with the city police viirs would be helpful in identifying fireprone hotspots using satellite imagery and is widely used in various waste treatment plants across the globe once subscribed the system would help in continuous monitoring of the area and thereby control future fires said an officercity police commissioner k sethu raman had filed a preliminary report on the investigation to the chief secretary on march 28 according to him the initial investigation had not given evidence beyond reasonable doubt that somebody set the garbage on firepolice had earlier got the response from nasa stating that they only had low resolution images along with the information of entities that need to be approached for high resolution images according to police the process for obtaining this is being held through the state disaster management authority and this will be helpful in corroboration of their findings