Fires in Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Credit

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

This MODIS true-color image shows active fires as red dots superimposed on a surface reflectance image of the Angola and Congo regions of south central Africa. MODIS has thermal detector uniquely designed to detect fires as hot as 500K without saturating.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2001-05-20