Fires in Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

These hundreds of fires burning in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa are probably agricultural fires set by locals to prepare land for cultivation or grazing. At upper right, Lake Tanganyika marks the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on May 20, 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-05-26