MODIS ACTIVE FIRE AND BURNED AREA PRODUCTS

Active Fire Products

The MODIS active fire product detects fires in 1-km pixels that are burning at the time of overpass under relatively cloud-free conditions using a contextual algorithm. Please see the MODIS Active Fire Product User's Guide for detailed information about the MODIS active fire product suite.

Aqua MODIS global daytime fires
Collection-6 Aqua MODIS active fire global browse image for 28 December 2002 showing all daytime overpasses. Fire pixels are shown in red, cloud pixels are shown in light blue, and areas lacking data are shown in white. Image produced by the MODIS Land Data Operational Product Evaluation Facility.


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