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Version	Acquisition Range	Science Quality Status
V003	August 29, 2002 (2002241) - October 7, 2002 (2002280)	Provisional as of Nov 1 2000
V004	February 26, 2000 (2000057)	Provisional as of February 26, 2000

Data Set Characteristics Area = ~ 10° x 10° lat/long Image Dimensions = 2 (1200X1200 row/column) Average File Size = 3 MB Resolution = 1 kilometer Projection = Sinusoidal Data Type Fire Mask = 8-bit unsigned integer Data Format = HDF-EOS Science Data Sets (SDSs) = 2 Pixel Value   Color Meaning 0 Black not processed (missing input data) 2 Dk Brown   not processed (other reason) 3 Dk Blue water 4 Lt Blue cloud 5 Green no fire 6 Purple unknown 7 Yellow low-confidence fire 8 Yellow nominal-confidence fire 9 Red high-confidence fire

This example of MOD14A2 displays data from December 2 - 10, 2000 along the Gulf of Guinea near eastern Africa leading up the Niger River. Small yellow and red dots represent fires in the area.

Product Description
The MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies/Fire products detect fire locations using 4- and 11-micrometer brightness temperatures. The detection strategy is based on absolute detection, if the fire is strong enough, and on detection relative to the background to account for variability of the surface temperature and reflection by sunlight. Numerous tests are employed to reject typical false alarm sources such as sun glint and unmasked coastline. Because the Terra MODIS instrument acquires data twice daily (10:30 am and 10:30 pm), as does the Aqua MODIS (2:30 pm and 2:30 am), four daily MODIS observations area available to contribute to global fire monitoring. The MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire 8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid product, MOD14A2, is a gridded 1km composite of the most confident fire pixel detected in each grid cell over an eight-day interval.

The MOD14A2 image above has been pseudo-colored to display fire data composited between December 5-12, 2000. This scene along the Gulf of Guinea near eastern Africa leading up the Niger River depicts low- and nominal-confidence fires as yellow pixels, and high-confidence fires as red pixels.

NOTE: These products are validated, meaning that product uncertainties are well defined over a range of representative conditions. Although there may be later improved versions, these data are ready for use in scientific publications.

SDS	Units	Data Type	Fill Value	Valid Range
Most confident detected fire	Bit field	8-bit unsigned Integer	0	0 - 9
Algorithm QA	Bit field	8-bit unsigned Integer	3	0 - 3

*MODIS Thermal Anomalies/Fire QA Science Data Sets

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Retrieve the MOD14A2v4 MODIS product through the LP DAAC Data Pool
Via Search Tool: http://e4eil01u.ecs.nasa.gov:22000/WebAccess/drill?attrib=esdt&esdt=MOD14A2.4&group=MOLT
Via FTP Directory: ftp://e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov/MOLT/MOD14A2.004/

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MODIS/TERRA THERMAL ANOMALIES/FIRE 8-DAY L3 GLOBAL 1KM SIN GRID V004

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Data Center:	LPDAAC
Sensor:	MODIS
Dataset:	MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire 8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid
Spatial:	HORIZONTALTILENUMBER Max/Min VERTICALTILENUMBER Max/Min
Geographic Extent:	Type Lat/Long Range or Draw on Map
Temporal Extent:	2000-02-24 to present

Product Information

Product Description (http://landval.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODLAND/fire.htm)

User Guide (http://modis-fire.umd.edu/documents/MODIS_Fire_Users_Guide_2_0__2.pdf)

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) (http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/atbd/land_atbd.php)

MODIS Standard Data Products Catalog (http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/index.php)

EOS Data Products Handbook Volume 1 (2000) (http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/for_scientists/data_products/vol1.php)

Additional Product Information (http://modis-fire.umd.edu/)

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