Fires along the coast of Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia

  • Credit

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

This MODIS image of the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia shows fires as red dots superimposed on a surface reflectance product. MODIS has thermal detectors uniquely designed to detect fires as hot as 500K without saturating. Also visible along the coast are phytoplankton, which show up as blue-green swirls.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2001-05-18