Abstract:
The Web Fire Mapper is an Internet based mapping tool that delivers locations of active fires in near real time. For selected regions and countries you can view an interactive map showing active fires for a specified time period, combined with your choice of GIS layers and satellite imagery.
Each fire detection represents the center of a 1 km pixel flagged as containing one or more actively ... burning fires within that pixel. The active fires are detected using data from the MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument, on board NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites.
Web Fire Mapper is up dated with additional GIS data and remote sensing layers in collaboration with GOFC-GOLD partners. Web Fire Mapper is primarily aimed at supporting natural resource managers, by helping them understand when and where fires occur.
Description:
The MODIS Land Rapid Response system has been developed to provide rapid access to MODIS data globally, with initial emphasis on 250m color composite imagery and active fire data.
Service Citation
Originators:
NASA/GSFC
Title:
Web Fire Mapper
Provider:
Geography Department, University of Maryland
Edition:
1
Access Constraints
You should consider the speed of your internet connection when choosing layers - loading a image layer can take a long time unless you have a relatively fast internet connection.
Name:
DIANE
DAVIES
Phone:
301-405-0064
Email:
ddavies at hermes.geog.umd.edu
Contact Address:
2181 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland City:
College Park
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20742
Country:
USA
Distribution Media
Distribution_Media:
Online
Distribution_Format:
shapefiles/ARC INFO export files
Fees:
No fees
Personnel
TYLER
B.
STEVENS Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
LOUIS
GIGLIO Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
301-405-0064
Email:
giglio at hermes.geog.umd.edu
Contact Address:
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland
Goddard Space Flight Center City:
College Par
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20742
Country:
USA
ROBERT
SOHLBERG Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
(301) 405-4292
Email:
rsohlber at geog.umd.edu
Contact Address:
Department of Geography
University of Maryland
Laboratory for Global Remote Sensing Studies City:
College Park
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20742-8225
Country:
GLOBAL
Publications/References
Armstrong, R. L., and M. J. Brodzik. 1995. An Earth-Gridded SSM/I Data Set for Cryospheric Studies and Global Change Monitoring. Advances in Space Research 16: 155-63.
Brodzik, M. J. and R. L. Armstrong. 2008. updated daily. Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures, 1988-2007. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Ferraro, R. R., ... F. Weng, N. C. Grody, and A. Basist. 1996. An eight-year (1987-1994) time series of rainfall, clouds, water vapor, snow cover, and sea ice derived from SSM/I measurements. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(5), 891-905.
Friedl, M. A., D. K. McIver, J. C. F. Hodges, X. Y. Zhang, D. Muchoney, A. H. Strahler, C. E. Woodcock, S. Gopal, A. Schneider, A. Cooper, A. Baccini, F. Gao, and C. Schaaf. 2002. Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83, 287-302
GLOBE Task Team and others (Hasting, D. A., P. K. Dunbar, G. M. Elphingstone et al.). 1999. The global land one-kilometer base elevation (GLOBE) digital elevation model, version 1.0. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, U.S.A. Digital data base at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/toto/globe.html and CD-ROMs.
Kim, Y., J. S. Kimball, K. C. McDonald, and J. Glassy. 2011. Developing a Global Data Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status using Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
McDonald, K.C, and J.S. Kimball, 2005. Hydrological application of remote sensing: Freeze Thaw states using both active and passive microwave sensors. Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. Part 5. Remote Sensing. M.G. Anderson and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/0470848944.hsa059a.
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date:
2003-11-03
SERF Last Revision Date:
2011-08-19
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