Fires in Central Africa

  • Credit

    SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Hundreds of fires are set every year during the dry season in Central Africa. This true color image from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) shows dozens of smoke plumes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on June 29, 2000. Residents burn away scrub and brush annually in the woody savanna to clear land for farming and grazing.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    2000-07-06