Global Daily MODIS Fire Products
and Interactive Fire Maps

Global Daily MODIS Fire Products
The MODIS Land Rapid Response system has been developed to provide rapid access to MODIS data globally, with initial emphasis on 250m colour composite imagery and active fire data.
For detailed background information on the MODIS satellite see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov

The system allows a quick real-time search for daily land and fire observation products. Several examples provide an introduction for navigating on the MODIS Land Rapid Response website: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/

The following alternative web page contains a number of image subsets that are automatically generated in near-real-time: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/

A forecast schedule of MODIS global Terra and Aqua Orbit Tracks is provided at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/datacenter/terra/

 

MODIS Active Fire and Burned Area Products
As part of the redesign, the MODIS Fire Team in December 2009 improved the user-friendliness of access of the MCD45A1 Global Burned Area data. The homepage allows now FTP retrieval of the first Global Burned Area product available from 2000 onwards in GeoTIFF and HDF format. The two available formats are geared to meeting the wide-ranging needs of the diverse user community in science and fire management applications. The GeoTIFFs, loadable into a GIS, are reprojected in Plate-Carrée projection and cover a set of sub-continental windows to reduce file size. The entire MODIS Burned Area Product is comprehensively described the new version of the user guide, also accessible from the website.
Access: http://modis-fire.umd.edu/index.html

 

MODIS Interactive Rapid Response Web Fire Maps
The University of Maryland, Department of Geography (U.S.A.), provides access to archived and current fire locations on GIS-based interactive maps on its The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) website. Web fire maps can be retrieved for Brazil, Central and Southern, Africa , Continental U.S., Southeast Asia and at global level.
Access: http://firemaps.geog.umd.edu/

 

Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS)
GFIMS integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. GFIMS is a monitoring system hosted at the Department of Natural Resources (NRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This product derives from the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) developed at the University of Maryland on NASA funds.
Access: http://www.fao.org/nr/gfims/gf-home/en/

 

ICEDS - Integrated CEOS European Data Server
This data server allows rapid global access to FIRMS MODIS fire data to be combined with e.g. global cloud coverage (custom weather), DMSP nighttime lights, LANDSAT 5, and other WMS layers

Access: http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk/viewer/iceds/index.html

 

Other Near-Real Time Global Satellite Imagery

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