{ "count": 72, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 11338, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11338/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-14T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "2013 Wildfires live shot interview", "description": "University of Maryland NASA researcher Dr. Chris Justice talks about the 2013 wildfire season as well as future trends for wildfires and how NASA resources are used to help detect and monitor wildfires around the world. || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 4092, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4092/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-08-08T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Fire Intensity Record for the United States (2000 through 2013)", "description": "This visualization displays the MODIS Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) Mean Fire Radiative Power (FRP). The CMG fire products incorporate MODIS active fire data into gridded statistical summaries of fire pixel information intended for use in regional and global modeling. The products are currently generated at 0.5 degree spatial resolution. Many of the lower intensity fires shown in red were prescribed fires, lit for either agricultural or ecosystem management purposes. Orange indicates fires that were more intense with the most intense FRP being shown in yellow. Most of these intense fires occurred in the western United States, where lightning and human activity often sparks blazes that firefighters cannot contain. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 4093, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4093/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-08-08T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Fire Intensity Global Record (2000 through 2013)", "description": "This visualization displays the MODIS Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) Mean Fire Radiative Power (FRP). The CMG fire products incorporate MODIS active fire data into gridded statistical summaries of fire pixel information intended for use in regional and global modeling. The products are currently generated at 0.5 degree spatial resolution. Many of the lower intensity fires shown in red were prescribed fires, lit for either agricultural or ecosystem management purposes. Orange indicates fires that were more intense with the most intense FRP being shown in yellow. Notice, many of the most intense fires occurred in higher latitudes. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 4071, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4071/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-05-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Normalized Differential Vegetation Index critical to Agricultural Monitoring in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan", "description": "On April 29-30, 2012 the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture brought together open data and agriculture experts along with the U.S. Agriculture Secretary U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and the World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development to explore more opportunities for open data and knowledge sharing. Governments want to help their farmers protect crops from pests and extreme weather, monitor water supplies and anticipate planting seasons that are shifting due to climate change. New satellite technologies offer enhanced capabilities for early forecasting of food production at national, regional, and global scales. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) program aims to strengthen national capacity in all countries from freely available data.These visuals show MODIS' satellite-derived crop NDVI Anomaly relative to average (2000-2011). Orange and brown indicate crop with below average conditions. Green indicates crop with above averate conditions. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 4072, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4072/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-05-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Normalized Differential Vegetation Index critical to Agricultural Monitoring in the United States", "description": "On April 29-30, 2012 the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture brought together open data and agriculture experts along with the U.S. Agriculture Secretary U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and the World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development to explore more opportunities for open data and knowledge sharing. Governments want to help their farmers protect crops from pests and extreme weather, monitor water supplies and anticipate planting seasons that are shifting due to climate change. New satellite technologies offer enhanced capabilities for early forecasting of food production at national, regional, and global scales. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) program aims to strengthen national capacity in all countries from freely available data.These visuals show MODIS' satellite-derived crop NDVI Anomaly relative to average (2000-2011). Orange and brown indicate crop with below average conditions. Green indicates crop with above averate conditions. The visual compares the crop conditions or NDVI anomaly from year 2011-2012 to year 2012-2013. In the 2012-2013 year 7,342 more metric tons (MT) of wheat were produced then in the previous year, but 40,086 fewer metric tons of corn were produced. || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 11175, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11175/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-29T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Scorched Earth", "description": "Australia's blisteringly dry climate makes it prone to fire every summer. But an extreme, record-breaking heat wave that began in late 2012 has sparked hundreds of wildfires this season. As firefighting crews battled fires across Australia, NASA satellites captured a wide-angle view of the activity. Imaging instruments snapped shots of smoke plumes drifting off to sea, and thermal sensors detected the location of individual fires and the severity of burn scars. A longer-term look at fire activity in Australia reveals a pattern of controlled fires in fall and winter—often set by fire managers to reduce \"fuel\"—and bursts of less predictable, more intense wildfires during spring and summer. The visualization shows 10 years of fires and vegetation changes across Australia, observed by the MODIS instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 4011, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4011/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-11-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "United States Active Fires 2012", "description": "Records maintained by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and NASA both indicate that 2012 was an extraordinary year for wildfires in the United States.NIFC statistics show that more than 9.1 million acres had burned as of November 30, 2012—the third highest total in a record that dates back to 1960. Also notable: despite the high number of acres burned in 2012, the total number of fires—55,505—was low, the least on the NIFC record. Average fire size in 2012 was the highest on the record.The visualizations depict fires that burned between January 1 and October 31, 2012, as detected by the MODIS instruments. The fires are displayed over MODIS' vegetation and snow cover data. Yellow and orange indicates fires that were more intense and had a larger area of active burning. Most of these intense fires occurred in the western United States, where lightning and human activity often sparks blazes that firefighters cannot contain. Many of the lower intensity fires shown in red were prescribed fires, lit for either agricultural or ecosystem management purposes.The Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) can routinely detect both flaming and smoldering fires that are aproximately 1000 square meters in size. Under pristine and extremely rare observing conditions even smaller flaming fires that are aproximately 50 square meters can be detected. Each active fire location represents the center of a 1 km pixel that is flagged by the algorithm as containing a fire within the pixel. For more information on the fire data, see the MODIS Collection 5 Active Fire Product User's Guide. For more information on the algorithm, see Giglio, L., J. Descloitres, C. O. Justice, and Y. J. Kaufman. 2003. An enhanced contextual fire detection algorithm for MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 87:273-282 || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 11076, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11076/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "America On Fire", "description": "For more than a decade, NASA satellites have monitored fires around the world. The data that is collected provides scientists with information about the location of fires, how much land is burned and how fires are responding to changes in climate. Dry conditions, for example, fueled a number of wildfires in the United States in recent years. From 2009 to 2011, more than 200,000 fires burned 18 million acres, or roughly all of Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware and Rhode Island. Exacerbated by ongoing drought conditions in the South, the state of Texas experienced an extreme wildfire season in 2011 that consumed more than 2.7 million acres. The visualization shows fires detected in the United States from July 2002 through July 2011 by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. Look for fires that reliably burn each year in western states and across the Southeast. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10863/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Forecasting South American Fires", "description": "Human settlement patterns are the primary factor that drives the distribution of fires in the Amazon. Satellite imagery shows, for example, that fishbone-shaped patterns of burned and deforested land extend outward from roads in predictable ways. Likewise, fires are rare in thinly populated areas. In recent years, however, new research has made clear that subtle environmental factors — including minor variations in ocean temperatures — amplify human impacts and underpin much of the variability in the number of fires the region experiences from one year to the next. A study conducted by UC Irvine scientists and published last week in Science even showed that scientists can predict the severity of the South American fire season months in advance by analyzing ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic and Central Pacific. To make the discovery, the researchers compared about a decade of fire observations collected by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites with records of sea surface temperatures maintained by NOAA. The video below offers a visual representation of the same decade of fire data the scientists used to conduct their study. Look closely to see if you can spot the especially intense fires seasons of 2005, 2007 and 2010. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10832, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10832/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Fire Continent", "description": "More fires burn in Africa each year than any other place on Earth. Collectively, these fires account for 70 percent of the total area burned by fire around the world. Humans set the majority of fires in Africa, burning land for farming and pastoral grazing. The practice is widespread and accepted by Africa's fire management community. Fire clears excess vegetation, creates new areas for cultivation and returns nutrients to the soils. Lightning fires, though not entirely uncommon, contribute much less to the total burning across the African landscape. At the beginning of the wet season, dry vegetation can readily ignite when struck by lightning. Such spontaneous ignitions can lead to wildfires that burn for days. The visualization below shows nearly a decade of fire observations throughout Africa collected by NASA satellites from July 2002 through July 2011. Watch how as the seasons shift from wet to dry, waves of fire sweep across the continent from the semi-arid grasslands and savannas just below the Sahara Desert in the north, to the equatorial forests in central Africa and lush landscapes of the south. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 10831, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10831/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Geography Of Fire", "description": "What do nearly ten years of satellite fire observations look like? Instruments on two NASA Earth-observing satellites have answered that question by scanning the surface for signs of fire four times a day since 2002. The instruments have generated an ever-growing string of data that researchers have used to map the distribution of the world's fires in unprecedented detail. The visualization below provides a global tour of these observations using red to indicate actively burning fires, green to show vegetation and white to show snow. It begins with heavy grassland fires that speckle the dry interior of Australia in 2002. The view then pans to Asia and fire-prone Africa where waves of agricultural and management fires sweep across large portions of these continents in sync with seasonal surges of vegetation and retreating snow. A glimpse of a mild South American fire season in 2009 follows, along with intermittent flashes from wildfires that ravaged areas of Texas in the spring of 2011. Such data has more than aesthetic value: scientists use it to track fire trends over time and to refine calculations that show how greenhouse gases and particles emitted by fires in different regions contribute to climate change. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10851, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10851/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-20T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Look Back at a Decade of Fires", "description": "For more than a decade, instruments on Terra and Aqua, two of NASA's flagship Earth-observing satellites, have scanned the surface of our planet for fires four times a day. The instruments, both Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS), have revolutionized what scientists know about fire's role in land cover change, ecosystem processes, and the global carbon cycle by allowing researchers to map the characteristics and global distribution of fires in remarkable detail. The collection of videos below provides perspective on how global fires impact humans and our planet. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3870, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3870/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-18T23:00:00-04:00", "title": "African Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. The MODIS instrument onboard the Terra and Aqua satellite, was specifically designed to detect fires. As a result, it can see both smaller fires and a wide range of fires from cool grass fires to raging forest fires. Burning carbon particles both on the tiny soot particles in the flame and on the fuel itself emit a very specific wavelength of light, 3.8 to 4 microns. NASA research has contributed to much improved detection of fire for scientific purposes using satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems. This has helped advance our understanding of the impacts of fire in many areas of earth science, including atmospheric chemistry and the impacts on protected areas. This research has led to the development of a rapid response system widely used throughout the world for both natural resource management and for firefighting by providing near real-time information. The visualization shows fires detected in Africa from July 2002 through July 2011. Africa has more abundant burning than any other continent. MODIS observations have shown that some 70 percent of the world's fires occur in Africa alone. \"It's incredibly satisfying to see such a long record of fires visualized,\" said Chris Justice, a scientist from the University of Maryland who leads NASA's effort to use MODIS data to study the world's fires. \"It's not only exciting visually, but what you see here is a very good representation of the data scientists use to understand the global distribution of fires and to determine where and how fires are responding to climate change and population growth.\"More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3869, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3869/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-18T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Boreal Forest Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI", "description": "NASA has released a series of new visualizations that show the locations of the millions of fires detected by key fire-monitoring instruments on NASA satellites over the last decade. This visualization shows fire observations made by the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on board the Terra and Aqua satellites in Europe and Asia from July 2002 through July 2011. \"It's incredibly satisfying to see such a long record of fires visualized,\" said Chris Justice, a scientist from the University of Maryland who leads NASA's effort to use MODIS data to study the world's fires. \"It's not only exciting visually, but what you see here is a very good representation of the data scientists use to understand the global distribution of fires and to determine where and how fires are responding to climate change and population growth.\"More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is available at https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 3871, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3871/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-18T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Australia Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. The MODIS instrument onboard the Terra and Aqua satellite, was specifically designed to detect fires. This visualization shows fire detections from July 2002 through July 2011. The visualization also includes vegetation and snow cover data to show how fires respond to seasonal changes. The tour begins in Australia in 2002 by showing a network of massive grassland fires spreading across interior Australia as well as the greener Eucalyptus forests in the northern and eastern part of the continent.More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 3872, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3872/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-18T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "South American Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. NASA research has contributed to much improved detection of fire for scientific purposes using satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems. This visualization of South America shows fire observations made by MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on board the Terra and Aqua satellites . South America exhibits a steady flickering of fire across much of the Amazon rainforest with peaks of activity in September and November. Almost all of the fires in the Amazon are the direct result of human activity, including slash-and-burn agriculture, because the high moisture levels in the region prevent inhibit natural fires from occurring.More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/. || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 3873, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3873/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-18T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "United States Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. NASA has released a series of new visualizations that show fires detected by key fire-monitoring instruments on NASA satellites over the last decade. The visualizations show fire observations made by MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on board the Terra and Aqua satellites. The visualization also includes vegetation and snow cover data to show how fires respond to seasonal changes. \"It's incredibly satisfying to see such a long record of fires visualized,\" said Chris Justice, a scientist from the University of Maryland who leads NASA's effort to use MODIS data to study the world's fires. \"It's not only exciting visually, but what you see here is a very good representation of the data scientists use to understand the global distribution of fires and to determine where and how fires are responding to climate change and population growth.\" North America is a region where fires are comparatively rare. North American fires make up just 2 percent of the world's burned area each year. The fires that receive the most attention in the United States, the uncontrolled forest fires in the West, are less visible than the wave of agricultural fires prominent in the Southeast and along the Mississippi River Valley, but some of the large wildfires that struck Texas earlier this spring are visible.More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 3868, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3868/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-10-18T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI", "description": "This visualization leads viewers on a narrated global tour of fire detections beginning in July 2002 and ending July 2011. The visualization also includes vegetation and snow cover data to show how fires respond to seasonal changes. The tour begins in Australia in 2002 by showing a network of massive grassland fires spreading across interior Australia as well as the greener Eucalyptus forests in the northern and eastern part of the continent. The tour then shifts to Asia where large numbers of agricultural fires are visible first in China in June 2004, then across a huge swath of Europe and western Russia in August, and then across India and Southeast Asia through the early part of 2005. It moves next to Africa, the continent that has more abundant burning than any other. MODIS observations have shown that some 70 percent of the world's fires occur in Africa alone. In what's a fairly average burning season, the visualization shows a huge outbreak of savanna fires during the dry season in Central Africa in July, August, and September of 2006, driven mainly by agricultural activities but also by the fact that the region experiences more lightning than anywhere else in the world. The tour shifts next to South America where a steady flickering of fire is visible across much of the Amazon rainforest with peaks of activity in September and November of 2009. Almost all of the fires in the Amazon are the direct result of human activity, including slash-and-burn agriculture, because the high moisture levels in the region prevent inhibit natural fires from occurring. It concludes in North America, a region where fires are comparatively rare. North American fires make up just 2 percent of the world's burned area each year. The fires that receive the most attention in the United States, the uncontrolled forest fires in the West, are less visible than the wave of agricultural fires prominent in the Southeast and along the Mississippi River Valley, but some of the large wildfires that struck Texas earlier this spring are visible. More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 10742, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10742/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-08-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NPP Resource Reel", "description": "The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) represents a critical first step in building the next-generation weather satellite system. Goddard Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to launch a satellite that will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this next-generation system, previously called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and now the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 10605, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10605/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-07-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Know Your Earth: Earth Observing Fleet Studies Climate", "description": "This animated video shares a series of fascinating facts about how climate change affects oceans, land, the atmosphere, and ice sheets around the world. With the help of an animated astronaut touring the Earth, the video explains how NASA's Earth observing satellite fleet enables scientists to gather accurate data and understand those changes.For complete transcript, click here. || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq.02196_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.9 KB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq_web.png (320x180) [281.3 KB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [17.6 KB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [41.1 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_appletv.m4v (960x540) [99.6 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.9 GB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_Final.wmv (1280x720) [89.9 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [105.0 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [33.5 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth.m4v (320x240) [18.1 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_SVS.mpg (512x288) [27.1 MB] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 10514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10514/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-12-11T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terra@10: Terra 10th Anniversary Video", "description": "The Earth-observing satellite Terra celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2009. This video highlights how Terra has helped us better understand our home planet. The satellite's five instruments - ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT - reveal how our our world is changing. For complete transcript, click here. || Terra10_ipodlarge.08402_print.jpg (1024x576) [38.3 KB] || Terra10_ipodlarge_web.png (320x180) [47.8 KB] || Terra10_ipodlarge_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || Terra10_Apple_TV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [71.4 MB] || Terra10_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [72.8 MB] || Terra10_Apple_TV.m4v (960x720) [179.0 MB] || Terra10_H.264.mov (1280x720) [146.6 MB] || Terra10_ipodlarge.m4v (640x360) [55.7 MB] || Terra10.mpg (512x288) [118.8 MB] || Terra10_ipodsmall.m4v (320x180) [24.0 MB] || Terra10.wmv (346x260) [18.2 MB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 3651, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3651/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-07T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "World Droughts From 2005 to 2009 Versus Where Crops are Grown", "description": "The Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling Studies (GIMMS) group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) provides United States Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) with global data stream of NDVI that spans over two decades (1981-present). The GIMMS NDVI is derived from measurements made by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Global Area Coverage (GAC) data from the National Atmospheric Oceanic Administration (NOAA) polar orbiting series of satellites. GIMMS has inter-calibrated the data from the NOAA-AVHRR satellite series and performed atmospheric correction to minimize the effects of volcanic aerosols to produce and maintain a consistent NDVI archive. The NDVI archive from GIMMS provides the historic database for monitoring the response of vegetation to climatic conditions.Linking the MODIS data to the long-term GIMMS AVHRR/NDVI, archive and SPOT Vegetation sensor data is a critical component of this project providing a consistent multi-source long-term data record for agricultural monitoring. This allows FAS analysts to compare current data with the spatial extent and severity of NDVI anomalies associated with heat stress, droughts and floods associated with crop failures. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 10496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10496/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science for a Hungry World: Land Cover Land Use Change", "description": "NASA remote sensing data is used to measure how much land is used for agriculture and where farms are in relation to population density. This episode explore the transition between native vegetation, farms, and cities. Satellites show where land use changes have been most significant.For complete transcript, click here. || 320x190.10127_print.jpg (1024x576) [132.1 KB] || 80x40_thumbnail.jpg (80x40) [5.6 KB] || 160x80_gallery_thumbnail.jpg (160x80) [16.8 KB] || 320x190_web_thumbnail.jpg (320x239) [73.7 KB] || 320x190_web_thumbnail_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [121.2 KB] || LCLUC_1280x720_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [59.0 MB] || LCLUC_1280x720_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [157.9 MB] || LCLUC_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [178.8 MB] || LCLUC_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [50.4 MB] || LCLUC_320x240_ipod.mp4 (320x180) [18.5 MB] || Ag_LCLUC_Ep3_FullRes.mov (1280x720) [4.2 GB] || bigmovie-agriculture_part3_video.hwshow || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 3649, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3649/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-06T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Food Consumers versus Food Producers", "description": "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration. In support of this collaboration, NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) jointly funded a new project to assimilate NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and products into an existing decision support system (DSS) operated by the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of FAS. To meet its objectives, FAS/IPAD uses satellite data and data products to monitor agriculture worldwide and to locate and keep track of natural disasters such as short and long term droughts, floods and persistent snow cover which impair agricultural productivity. FAS is the largest user of satellite imagery in the non-military sector of the U.S. government. For the last 20 years FAS has used a combination of Landsat and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data to monitor crop condition and report on episodic events. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 3650, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3650/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-06T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Food Insecure Countries", "description": "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration. In support of this collaboration, NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) jointly funded a new project to assimilate NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and products into an existing decision support system (DSS) operated by the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of FAS. To meet its objectives, FAS/IPAD uses satellite data and data products to monitor agriculture worldwide and to locate and keep track of natural disasters such as short and long term droughts, floods and persistent snow cover which impair agricultural productivity. FAS is the largest user of satellite imagery in the non-military sector of the U.S. government. For the last 20 years FAS has used a combination of Landsat and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data to monitor crop condition and report on episodic events. Food security in 70 developing countries is projected to deteriorate over the next decade, according to USDA's Economic Research Service. After rising nearly 11 percent from 2007 to 2008, the number of food-insecure people in the developing countries analyzed by ERS researchers is estimated to rise to 833 million in 2009, an almost 2-percent rise from 2008 to 2009. Despite a decline in food prices in late 2008, deteriorating purchasing power and food security are expected in 2009 because of the growing financial deficits and higher inflation that have occurred in recent years. Food-insecure people are defined as those consuming less than the nutritional target of 2,100 calories per day per person. || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 3629, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3629/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Crop Intensity", "description": "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration. In support of this collaboration, NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) jointly funded a new project to assimilate NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and products into an existing decision support system (DSS) operated by the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of FAS. To meet its objectives, FAS/IPAD uses satellite data and data products to monitor agriculture worldwide and to locate and keep track of natural disasters such as short and long term droughts, floods and persistent snow cover which impair agricultural productivity. FAS is the largest user of satellite imagery in the non-military sector of the U.S. government. For the last 20 years FAS has used a combination of Landsat and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data to monitor crop condition and report on episodic events.To successfully monitor worldwide agricultural regions and provide accurate agricultural production assessments, it is important to understand the spatial distribution of croplands. To do this a global croplands mask to identify all sites used for crop production. Croplands are highly variable both temporally and spatially. Croplands vary from year to year due to events such as drought and fallow periods, and they vastly differ across the globe in accordance with characteristics such as cropping intensity and field size. A flexible crop likelihood mask is used to help depict these varying characteristics of global crop cover. Regions featuring intensive agro-industrial farming practices such as the Maize Triangle in South Africa will have higher confidence values in the crop mask as compared to less intensively farmed regions in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa where cropland identification is partly confounded with natural background vegetation phenologies. Thus, a customized threshold can be employed to examine areas of varying cropping intensification. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 3637, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3637/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Deforestation of Rondonia, Brazil from 1975 to 2009", "description": "In the 1970s, Brazil's Program of National Integration built roads across the Amazon and settled land along these roads with colonists. These roads were catalysts of land use change in the Amazon.Brazil is also home to more than a quarter of Earth's tropical forests. Considering that the band of lush green that circles the globe through many equatorial nations is fundamental to the overall health of the whole planet's environment, careful monitoring of forest health in the tropics is essential. Tropical forests act as major carbon 'sinks', places where ambient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be absorbed by growing things and sequestered for years. Definitive evidence shows that excess carbon dioxide can contribute to the greenhouse effect and speed global warming. Similarly, tropical forests also act as a primary producer of oxygen. In the respiration process that absorbs gaseous carbon dioxide, trees and other plants give off oxygen.Data taken in 1975 and 2009 from the Landsat series of spacecraft shows enormous tracts of forest disappearing in Rondonia, Brazil. || ", "hits": 138 }, { "id": 3646, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3646/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "2009 Crop Intensity, 2009 Producers, and 2050 Projected Population", "description": "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration. In support of this collaboration, NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) jointly funded a new project to assimilate NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and products into an existing decision support system (DSS) operated by the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of FAS. To meet its objectives, FAS/IPAD uses satellite data and data products to monitor agriculture worldwide and to locate and keep track of natural disasters such as short and long term droughts, floods and persistent snow cover which impair agricultural productivity. FAS is the largest user of satellite imagery in the non-military sector of the U.S. government. For the last 20 years FAS has used a combination of Landsat and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data to monitor crop condition and report on episodic events.To successfully monitor worldwide agricultural regions and provide accurate agricultural production assessments, it is important to understand the spatial distribution of croplands. To do this a global croplands mask to identify all sites used for crop production. Croplands are highly variable both temporally and spatially. Croplands vary from year to year due to events such as drought and fallow periods, and they vastly differ across the globe in accordance with characteristics such as cropping intensity and field size. A flexible crop likelihood mask is used to help depict these varying characteristics of global crop cover. Regions featuring intensive agro-industrial farming practices such as the Maize Triangle in South Africa will have higher confidence values in the crop mask as compared to less intensively farmed regions in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa where cropland identification is partly confounded with natural background vegetation phenologies. Thus, a customized threshold can be employed to examine areas of varying cropping intensification. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 10491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science For a Hungry World: NASA's Partners", "description": "Every day, NASA collects information vital to food production all over the world. This information is a valuable asset. NASA's mission: to give it away for free. With the data they collect, teams of NASA researchers and their partners at the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, USAID Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), NOAA, and several major universities including the University of Maryland, work to increase crop yields, ease famine, and keep the global agricultural system functioning.For complete transcript, click here. || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240.01192_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.5 KB] || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240_web.png (320x180) [108.6 KB] || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240_thm.png (80x40) [12.4 KB] || Ag_Ep_2_full_res-H.264_for_Apple_TV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [65.1 MB] || ag_ep_2_draft_5-Ag_ep2_Partners_09-25-09_1804_copy-720_H.264_QT_for_16x9_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [69.5 MB] || Ag_Ep_2_full_res-H.264_for_Apple_TV.m4v (960x540) [166.6 MB] || ag_ep_2_draft_5-Ag_ep2_Partners_09-25-09_1804_copy-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_640x480.m4v (640x360) [56.2 MB] || GSFC_20090930_ag_ep_2_m10491.en_US.srt [11.6 KB] || GSFC_20090930_ag_ep_2_m10491.en_US.vtt [11.2 KB] || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240.m4v (320x180) [20.7 MB] || Ag_Ep_2_full_res.wmv (320x236) [43.4 MB] || bigmovie-agriculture_part2_video.hwshow || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 3624, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3624/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-09-13T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "2008 Northern Australia Fire Observations", "description": "The data used to generate this animation were collected by the NASA MODIS intrument. Data are collected four times per day using two satellite platforms. The instrument design included the capability to identify active fires sensing in the middle infrared part of the spectrum. The fire data used in the animation were generated by the MODIS advanced processing system at NASA. The MODIS Global Fire data are available free of charge and within a few hours of satellite acquisition. The fire data are used by scientists and fire managers around the world. The fires that these data show include - savanna fires, wildfires, managed fires, agricultural fires, and thermal anomalies associated with power plants or gas flares. Fires occur around the world at different times of the year. MODIS is entering its 10th year of data collection and we are using the data to study the global distribution of fires and document changed in fire regimes due to climate or land use change. These fire data are used by Australian fire managers and scientists. Dr Chris Justice and the MODIS team participated in the NAILSMA experiment. NAILSMA was commissioned by the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce to convene a forum to bring together key Indigenous water experts from across the north of Australia to discuss their water interests and issues. This part of Northern Australia is an important area in terms of biodiversity and fire is an integral ecosystem process. We are interested in applying these data and other data from the MODIS instrument to better understand the occurence of fire and its characteristics in the Northern Territories with respect to emissions of trace gases into the atmosphere an the imacts of fire on the ecosystem. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3601, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3601/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-06-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Agricultural Monitoring", "description": "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration. In support of this collaboration, NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) jointly funded a new project to assimilate NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and products into an existing decision support system (DSS) operated by the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of FAS. To meet its objectives, FAS/IPAD uses satellite data and data products to monitor agriculture worldwide and to locate and keep track of natural disasters such as short and long term droughts, floods and persistent snow cover which impair agricultural productivity. FAS is the largest user of satellite imagery in the non-military sector of the U.S. government. For the last 20 years FAS has used a combination of Landsat and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data to monitor crop condition and report on episodic events. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 3598, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3598/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-06-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monitoring Agricultural Production from Space", "description": "Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps allow comparisons of the spatial and temporal variability in the amount and condition of vegetation. The time series satellite derived NDVI was used to monitor and analyze changes in vegetation patterns in the major wheat production domain area in Australia. The NDVI comparison was done during the growing season, April through November, for 2002, 2005, and 2006 and it found that significant differences in vegetation growth production. These data and utilities are fundamental for crop yield forecasts and can serve as an early warning system for regions suffering from crop loss and food shortages. Wheat is Australia's most important crop, with a seasonal gross value approaching 3 billion Australian dollars. Australia contributes between and 8 and 15% of world's wheat trade, making it the fourth largest exporter after the United States, Canada and the European Union. Severe drought in Australia not only decimating crops, but it also curtails exports and causes major price and trade impacts on global markets. In 2006, wheat exports dropped by a third from the year before which caused worldwide prices to soar to the highest levels in a decade. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 3597, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3597/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-06-13T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fire Observations - As the World Turns", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. NASA research has contributed to much improved detection of fire for scientific purposes using satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems. This has helped advance our understanding of the impacts of fire in many areas of earth science, including atmospheric chemistry and the impacts on protected areas. This research has led to the development of a rapid response system widely used throughout the world for both natural resource management and for firefighting by providing near real-time information. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2007, each red dot marks a new fire. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. More information on the Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) is available at http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/ || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2890/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-02-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "African Fires During 2002 (WMS)", "description": "This animation shows fire activity in Africa from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the geographic region in which fire was detected. The color of a particle represents the number of days since a sizable amount of fire was detected in that region, with red representing less than 20 days, orange representing 20 to 40 days, yellow representing 40 to 60 days, and gray to black representing more than 60 days. This data was measured by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. MODIS detects fires by measuring the brightness temperature of a region in several frequency bands and looking for hot spots where this temperature is greater than the surrounding region. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 2853, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2853/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations with Labels (HD Version)", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This version of the visualization displays descriptive text labels and color bars. There is a standard definition version available as well. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 2854, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2854/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations without Labels (HD Version)", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This version of the animation displays a minimal set of labels. For a closed captioned version of this animation, see the standard definition version at animation ID 2806. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 2707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2707/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-11-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 2806, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2806/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-11-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations without Labels", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This animation of remote sensing observations of fires and other related data was chosen as part of the SIGGRAPH 2003 Computer Animation Theater. (The only difference was that the SIGGRAPH version had shorter credits.) || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 2790, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2790/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-08-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Time Series of the Biscuit Fire", "description": "This animation contains a time series of print resolution still images showing the progression of the Biscuit fire in Oregon during 2002. Fire locations are represented as particles that change color as the fire ages. The Biscuit fire burned 500,000 acres of forest in Oregon and Northern California during the summer and fall of 2002. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 2791, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2791/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-08-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Time Series of the Biscuit Fire with Smoke", "description": "This animation contains a time series of print resolution still images showing the progression of the Biscuit fire with smoke plumes in Oregon during 2002. Fire locations are represented as particles that change color as the fire ages. The Biscuit fire burned 500,000 acres of forest in Oregon and Northern California during the summer and fall of 2002. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 2643, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2643/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-10-29T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mt. Etna Erupts and Terra/MODIS Captures It", "description": "MODIS captures Mt. Etna's Plume and Smoke Trail || A animation that shows Mt. 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The particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 2639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2639/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over Central America during 2001 and 2002 with Clock", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over Central America from 8/21/2001 to 8/20/2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset indicates the date. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 2522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2522/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Revolution of Fires During 2001 and 2002", "description": "This animation shows a unique picture of annual fire activity. Here, global fire activity between 8/21/2001 and 8/20/2002 is displayed as tiny particles on a rotating globe with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 2524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2524/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Portrait of Global Fires during 2001 and 2002", "description": "This animation shows a unique picture of seasonal fire activity. Here, global fire activity is displayed as tiny particles on a rotating globe with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2525/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Portrait of Global Fires during 2001 and 2002 with Clock", "description": "This animation shows a unique picture of seasonal fire activity. Here, global fire activity is displayed as tiny particles on a rotating globe with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock overlay shows the date. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2526, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2526/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annual Portrait of Global Fires during 2001 and 2002 on a Flat Map", "description": "This animation shows a unique picture of seasonal and yearly fire activity. Here, global fire activity is displayed as tiny particles on a flat map with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 2527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2527/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annual Portrait of Global Fires during 2001 and 2002 on a Flat Map with Clock", "description": "This animation shows a unique picture of seasonal and yearly fire activity. Here, global fire activity is displayed as tiny particles on a flat map with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset shows the date. || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 2528, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2528/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Zoom", "description": "This animation shows the camera pulling out from the Southwestern US while fire activity during the summer of 2002 is displayed. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 5 days per second. The particles fade over 3.4 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 2529, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2529/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Zoom and Clock", "description": "This animation shows the camera pulling out from the Southwestern US while fire activity during the summer of 2002 is displayed. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 5 days per second. The particles fade over 3.4 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset indicates the date. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2530, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2530/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Still Camera", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over the Western US during the summer of 2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 5 days per second. The particles fade over 3.4 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 2531, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2531/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Still Camera and Clock", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over the Western US during the summer of 2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 5 days per second. The particles fade over 3.4 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset indicates the date. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 2532, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2532/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over the United States during the Summer of 2002", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over the United States from 5/1/2002 to 8/20/2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 15 days per second. The particles fade over 1.13 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 2533, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2533/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over the United States during the Summer of 2002 with Clock", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over the United States from 5/1/2002 to 8/20/2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 15 days per second. The particles fade over 1.13 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset shows the date. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 2534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2534/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over North America during 2001 and 2002 ", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over North America from 8/21/2001 to 8/20/2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 2535, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2535/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over North America during 2001 and 2002 with Clock", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over North America from 8/21/2001 to 8/20/2002. 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