Questions/Comments • What are the different sources of fire data in FIRMS?

What are the different sources of fire data in FIRMS?

• MODIS NRT C6.1 (MCD14DL) are the NRT MODIS (Terra and Aqua) Collection 6.1 data processed by NASA FIRMS.
  MCD14ML provided by FIRMS are a subset of the standard quality data processed by the MODIS Fire Team Science Computing Facility at the University of Maryland. These are available with a 2-3 month lag through the Archive Download Tool and can be viewed and queried in Fire Map.
• VIIRS 375 m NRT active fire data are available from Suomi NPP (VNP14IMGTDL_NRT) and NOAA-20 (VJ114IMGTDL_NRT). These are processed by NASA FIRMS.
• Landsat Fire and Thermal Anomalies (LFTA) product is generated from all daytime Operational Land Imager (OLI) acquisitions and currently provided for most of North America (CONUS, southern Canada and northern Mexico). The LFTA is currently produced through a collaboration by USGS EROS Data Center, NASA, and the USDA Forest Service. Daily Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 OLI observations are processed by EROS and use the NASA-developed algorithm to produce active fire detection data that is ingested into FIRMS.

Please note: A real-time (RT) and ultra real-time (URT) version of both MODIS and VIIRS active fire data are available for the US and Canada within minutes of satellite observation. See What are the real-time (RT) and ultra real-time (URT) data in FIRMS?.

Statistics: Posted by Earthdata - wxedward — Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:56 am America/New_York

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