Fires events 2006-2016

The MODIS active fire product detects fires in 1km pixels that are burning at the time of overpass under relatively cloud-free conditions using a contextual algorithm, where thresholds are first applied to the observed middle–infrared and thermal infrared brightness temperature and then false detections are rejected by examining the brightness temperature relative to neighboring pixels (Giglio, L. et al. 2003). The monthly fire location product contains the geographic location, date, and some additional information for each fire pixel detected by the Terra and Aqua MODIS sensors on a monthly basis.