Multisensor Fire Observations w/o Labels
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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.)
A view of fire incidence in the United States on June 21, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. The big red region in Arizona is the Rodeo-Chediski fire and the red region in the center of Colorado is the Hayman fire.