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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.)
High resolution thermal data for the Biscuit Fire measured on August 14, 2002, by the ASTER instrument on the Terra satellite. Bright purple regions represent currently active fire regions, while dark purple regions are older burned areas.
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)