A Look Back at a Decade of Fires
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- Lori Perkins
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Fire observations from around the world taken over nearly 10 years are shown in this visualization of NASA satellite data.
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UC Irvine scientist Jim Randerson talks about how fires influence climate.
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NASA scientist Amber Soja talks about the impact of fire on human health and air quality.
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University of Maryland scientist Chris Justice explains how some fires are essential to maintaining the ecosystem.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Animator
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
Writers
- Adam P. Voiland (SSAI)
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Video editor
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Scientists
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Louis Giglio (University of Maryland)
- Luigi Boschetti (University Of Maryland College Park)
Interviewees
- Amber Soja (NASA/LaRC)
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Jim Randerson (University of California, Irvine)
Producer
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Narrator
- Jefferson Beck (KBRwyle)
Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (AIMM)
Missions
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Datasets used in this visualization
Terra and Aqua Fire Location (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: Fire location data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland - http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)
See more visualizations using this data setTerra and Aqua NDVI (A.K.A. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Terra and Aqua Ice and Snow (A.K.A. Pixel Reliability (value=2)) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
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