Wildfires in Florida

  • Credit

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

Several wildfires are smoking in Florida, and this MODIS image shows them as red dots superimposed on a surface reflectance product. MODIS has thermal detectors uniquely designed to detect fires as hot as 500K without saturating.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2001-05-24