Jan 30, 2025 · Wildfire is an essential process connecting terrestrial systems to the atmosphere and climate. As vegetation burns, it releases smoke, carbon, and other materials into the atmosphere. These fires also release nutrients into the soil and are an integral part of ecological succession, plant germination, and soil enhancement.

Jul 3, 2024 · Wildfire smoke is a mixture of air pollutants of which particulate matter (PM) is the principal public health threat. PM 2.5 from wildfire smoke is associated with premature deaths in the general population, and can cause and exacerbate diseases of the lungs, heart, brain/nervous system, skin, gut, kidney, eyes, nose and liver.

Nov 16, 2022 · The NASA data that Davies, Ichoku, Rasolohery, and many others use to track and study wildfire provide critical information they need to determine what blazes mean for African communities. Understanding the data can certainly be complex and nuanced at times, such as when viewing hundreds of tiny fire points on a world map.

The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access, with minimal delay, to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. FIRMS tools and applications provide geospatial data, …

Nov 8, 2024 · The features of the Advanced mode support wildfire practitioners and emergency response personnel who require additional information and context to inform active fire management and tactical wildfire response (including the ability to refine the active fire detection temporal search range to hourly and sub-daily [+10 minute] increments).

View a list of fire attribute fields for NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

Nov 4, 2020 · The bank notified the client, who was able to immediately begin fighting the wildfire. While the rancher lost 100 hectares of pasture, the rapid notification of the fire enabled him to save the rest of his 1,200-hectare property. Somewhere on Earth a wildfire is burning. Thanks to data from Earth observing satellites, the world can respond.

Jul 20, 2022 · The ability to access such low-latency data is of immense value to the wildfire community. “The more timely the data, the higher their value when assessing the location, extent, and intensity of newly detected fire activity,” said Quayle. “This timeliness also increases their potential for use as a tool to detect new fire starts.

Nov 3, 2020 · False-color image (Bands M11-I2-I1) of the wildfire in Portugal, dark red shows the area burned and bright red shows the active fire front with smoke emanating from the fires. This false-color image was acquired on 20 June 2017 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite ( VIIRS ) instrument, aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar ...

Jun 29, 2023 · Canadian Wildfire Smoke Reaches Europe Canadian Wildfire Smoke Reaches Europe Image captured June 27, 2023, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.