Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 1 is a satellite-based instrument used to collect data about features on the Earth’s surface. Scientists have developed algorithms to analyze that ...
This composite MODIS image shows the location of all the fires in the eastern hemisphere during the period of January 1 to January 10, 2007. Each colored dot shows the location that the MODIS on ...
In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help ...
MODIS fire detections indicate a fire reported somewhere within the 1 kilometer square area indicated and are updated every six hours by NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. VIIRS fire detections have a ...
On July 16, 2007, lightning ignited a fire on Alaska’s North Slope. Since then, the landscape changed from summer green to autumn brown, but the fire was still burning on September 25, when the MODIS ...