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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Multisensor Fire Observations without Labels
From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This animation of remote sensing observations of fires and other related data was chosen as part of the SIGGRAPH 2003 Computer Animation Theater. (The only difference was that the SIGGRAPH version had shorter credits.)
Fire incidence data over North America on September 12, 2002, as measured by MODIS, shown with near surface ocean wind velocity vectors over the Pacific Ocean, as measred by the SeaWinds instrument on QuickSCAT.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS, TRMM/TMI, TOMS/TOMS, Terra/MISR, Terra/ASTER, Space Shuttle/SRTM, QuikSCAT/SeaWinds -
Animation ID
2806 -
Video ID
None -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Cindy Starr, Horace Mitchell, Randall Jones, Alex Kekesi, Marte Newcombe, Lori Perkins, Greg Shirah, Eric Sokolowsky, James W. Williams -
Studio
SVS -
Writer
Jarrett Cohen -
Narrator
Michael Starobin (HTSI) -
Visualization Date
2003/03/07 -
Scientist
Chris Justice (University of Maryland), Robert Sohlberg (University of Maryland), William C. North (NASA/GSFC), Fred J. Gunther (CSC) -
Datasets
USGS/GTOPO30, Aerosol Index, Fire Location, Landcover, Population, Wind, Topography -
Keywords
Fire, Biscuit, Hayman, Rodeo, SIGGRAPH -
DLESE Subject
Natural hazards, Atmospheric science, Forestry -
Data Date
2001/10/01 - 2002/09/30 -
Story URL
http://nasadaacs.eos.nasa.gov/scienceoffire.html -
Animation Type
Regular -
Other Credits
the ESDIS Science Operations Office and the MODIS Rapid Response Team (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)