Australia Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI
- Visualizations by:
- Lori Perkins
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More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Animators
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Writer
- Adam P. Voiland (SSAI)
Scientists
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Louis Giglio (University of Maryland)
- Luigi Boschetti (University Of Maryland College Park)
Producer
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
Missions
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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)
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Scorched Earth
Jan. 28, 2013, 7 p.m.
Read moreWildfires have left their mark in Australia during this Southern Hemisphere summer. || Watch how the growth of vegetation and spread of fire often go hand in hand. Red dots indicate individual fires detected by NASA satellites. || Winds blowing to the northwest carry away the smoke of multiple wildfires burning in northern Australia in Oct. 2012. || Heavy smoke rises from fires burning on the densely vegetated Cape York Peninsula in Nov. 2012. Red outlines mark intensely hot surfaces. || Thick smoke plumes from the southwestern tip of Australia waft over the Indian Ocean in Feb. 2012. || In this false-color image, healthy vegetation (red) surrounds a nearly 10-mile-wide burn scar (brown) from a Jan. 2013 fire in Tasmania.