Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
African Fires during 2002 (WMS)
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.
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Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2890 -
Video ID
None -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Eric Sokolowsky, Cindy Starr -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2004/02/10 -
Scientist
Chris Justice (University of Maryland), Robert Sohlberg (University of Maryland) -
Datasets
Fire Location -
Keywords
Fires, GCMD--Location--Africa -
DLESE Subject
Natural hazards, Atmospheric science, Forestry -
Georeference Data
Geographic Projection: Latitude extents -39, 41. Longitude extents -22, 58. -
Data Date
2002/01/01 - 2002/12/31 -
Story URL
http://modis-fire.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.asp -
Animation Type
Regular
