Multisensor Fire Observations without Labels

The full 5 minute multisensor fire animation with audio and without annotations

A global view of fire incidence on May 5, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. Red dots represent new fires, orange dots represent fires a day or so old, and gray dots represent old fires several days old.

A global view of fire incidence on July 5, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. Red dots represent new fires, orange dots represent fires a day or so old, and gray dots represent old fires several days old.

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.

A view of fire incidence in the United States on July 5, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. Both the Rodeo-Chediski and Hayman fires are gone by this date.

A view of fire incidence in the United States on May 12, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. Superimposed over the fires are cloud data in white from GOES and precipitation data in orange and yellow from TRMM.

A view of fire incidence in the United States on June 19, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. Superimposed over the fires are cloud data in white from GOES and aerosol data in brown from Earth Probe TOMS. The Hayman fire is visible as a red region in central Colorado.

A view of fire incidence in the United States on July 14, 2002, as seen by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite. The fires are superimposed over landcover data from MODIS, where regions of different landcover characteristic are represented by different colors. The Biscuit fire is visible on the western end of the California-Oregon border.

A view of the region around Denver, Colorado, on June 9, 2002, during the Hayman fire. Both the reddish image and the 3D smoke plume are measurements from the MISR instrument on Terra. The Hayman fire is located at the leftmost end of the smoke plume. The regions in purple are regions of large population density, and Denver is right underneath the right end of the plume.

A view of the region around Denver, Colorado, on June 9, 2002, during the Hayman fire. The 3D smoke plume is a measurement from the MISR instrument on Terra, and the Hayman fire is located at the leftmost end of the smoke plume. The colored regions on the terrain are regions of differing landcover type, with magenta representing urban areas.

Fire incidence data for the Rodeo-Chediski fire in central Arizona on June 21, 2002, as measured by MODIS. Red regions are new fire areas, while orange and gray areas are successively older fires.

Landsat imagery for the Rodeo-Chediski fire in central Arizona on June 21, 2002. The imagery is enhanced with thermal data to bring out the fire regions.

Landsat imagery for the Rodeo-Chediski fire in central Arizona on June 29, 2002, after the fires have merged into a single fire. The imagery is enhanced with thermal data to bring out the fire regions.

Fire incidence for Nevada and California on July 13, 2002, as measured by MODIS. Purple regions represent regions of large population density.

Fire incidence for the Biscuit Fire in southern Oregon on July 29, 2002, as measured by MODIS. Purple regions represent regions of large population density, and the fire data is superimposed over MODIS imagery of the smoke being blown to the west from the fires.

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.

Fire incidence data for the Biscuit Fire, as measured on August 20, 2002, by MODIS. The fire data is superimposed on land cover data from MODIS illustrating that the fire region is almost all one land cover type, evergreen needleleaf (in green), except for some small urban areas (in magenta).

Fire incidence data over North America on September 12, 2002, as measured by MODIS, shown with near surface ocean wind velocity vectors over the Pacific Ocean, as measred by the SeaWinds instrument on QuickSCAT.