Fire Radiative Power is used to measure intensity; it depicts the
pixel-integrated fire radiative power in MW (megawatts). FRP provides
information on the measured radiant heat output of detected fires. The
amount of radiant heat energy liberated per unit...
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Burned area data (MCD45) (including shape files) can be downloaded
from http://modis-fire.umd.edu/pages/BurnedArea.php
[http://modis-fire.umd.edu/pages/BurnedArea.php]
VIIRS fire detections can be found at: http://viirsfire.geog.u...
You can download MODIS and VIIRS hotspot data (as shown in Web Fire
Mapper: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/firemap/) from the FIRMS
archive download tool:
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/download/
Please note the MODIS archive is made up of st...
You can opt to receive a .CSV file for your fire email alert from
FIRMS and this can be opened in EXCEL using the File / import option.
See instructions below:
First, save the CSV file to you computer
You can open this in EXCEL using the following -
...
Go to https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/alerts/
Enter your email address and click proceed. Follow the instructions to
"edit" your new alert.
You can use the map to zoom in and select your area of interest either
by drawing a polygon, entering corner c...
The confidence value was added to help users gauge the quality of
individual fire pixels is included in the Level 2 fire product. This
confidence estimate, which ranges between 0% and 100%, is used to
assign one of the three fire classes (low-confide...
To access the MODIS active fire text files via FTP you need to be
registered in the EOSDIS (Earth Observing System Data and Information
System) User Registration System.
If you haven't already registered under NASA EOSDIS , you can sign up
at:https...
NASA promotes the full and open sharing of all data with the research
and applications communities, private industry, academia, and the
general public. You can find out more about the data policy at:
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-science-dat...
I was playing around with QGIS yesterday and today to see what might
be happening to prevent it from working. I have not yet discovered why
QGIS doesn't work with our server (ArcGIS does seem to work), but I do
have a work-around so that you can load the ...
