Fires and smoke in Indochina

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Thick, blue-gray smoke hangs over Southeast Asia as the annual agricultural burning season continues. Scores of fires were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite during an overpass on March 24, 2004, and have been marked with red dots in the image. Countries shown are (clockwise from top left) Myanmar, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2004-03-24