2003 California Fire Sequence as Seen by MODIS
This visualization shows the progression of the southern California fires of October 2003. Visible MODIS imagery from Aqua and Terra are used as well as thermal data to show fire locations. Active fires for particular days are shown in red, fires that are no longer active are shown in black (highlighting the 'burn scar').
Movie of southern California fires progression during October 2003.
Fire image from October 23, 2003
Fire image from October 25, 2003
Fire image from October 26, 2003
Fire image from October 27, 2003
Fire image from October 28, 2003
Fire image from October 29, 2003
Fire image from October 29 (close up)
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, November 6, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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[Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 5 -
[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116
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