Earth  ID: 3871

Australia Fire Observations and MODIS NDVI

Visualizations by Lori Perkins Released on October 18, 2011
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/.

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This animation shows a sequence of fires over MODIS NDVI data in Australia from July 2002 through July 2011. This still image is from January 15, 2003.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2002.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2002.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2002.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2003.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2003.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2003.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2003.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2004.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2004.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2004.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2004.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2005.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2005.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2005.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2005.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2006.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2006.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2006.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2006.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2007.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2007.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2007.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2007.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2008.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2008.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2008.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2008.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2009.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2009.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2009.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2009.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2010.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2010.
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Active fires and vegetation index for September 15, 2010.
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Active fires and vegetation index for December 15, 2010.
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Active fires and vegetation index for March 15, 2011.
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Active fires and vegetation index for July 15, 2011.
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Colortable showing the MODIS MYD13C1 product of composite 16 day Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
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Colortable showing MODIS fire pixels. The number colorized is MODIS MCD14ML T21 Brightness temperature minus the T31 Brightness temperature.
 

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Visualization Credits

Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Kayvon Sharghi (USRA): Producer
Chris Justice (University of Maryland): Scientist
Louis Giglio (SSAI): Scientist
Luigi Boschetti Ph.D. (University Of Maryland College Park): Scientist
Adam P Voiland (Wyle Information Systems): Writer
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Fire Location
Credit:
Fire location data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland - http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) also referred to as: NDVI
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Dates of Data Used:
2001/07/01 - 2011/07/30

This item is part of these series:
Fires
Multisensor Fire Observations
NDVI
Agriculture Animations - Fires

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Forestry
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Natural hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Fire Occurrence
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Natural Hazards >> Fires
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Ecosystems
SVS >> Natural Disaster
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Earth Science Focus Areas >> Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0