Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Still Camera
This animation shows fire activity over the Western US during the summer of 2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 5 days per second. The particles fade over 3.4 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray.
This animation shows fires detected over the Western US between 5-1-2002 and 8-20-2002.
Video slate image reads "Fires over the Western US during 2002 with Still Camera".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. Fire location data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project
(NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland).
The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.
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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Robert Sohlberg (University of Maryland)
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, September 5, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
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Fire Location [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 496Credit: Fire location data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland - http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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