The collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 178; pp. 31 - 41
• Main Authors: Giglio, Louis, Schroeder, Wilfrid, Justice, Christopher O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer; Algorithms; Americas; Biomass burning; Central Asia; Collection; ecosystems; Equatorial regions; Fiber reinforced plastics; Fire; Fire detection; fire intensity; Fires; forests; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; MODIS; monitoring; North America; oceans; probability; remote sensing; satellites; smoke; South America; surface water; INW, Asia; ASW, South America; North America; South America; Central Asia; Biomass burning; MODIS; Fire

The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments, on-board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, have provided more than a decade of global fire data. Here we describe improvements made to the fire detection algorithm and swath-level product that were implemented as part of...