Fires in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, Canada

In the Alberta (left), Saskatchewan (center) and Manitoba (right) provinces of Canada, several prairie fires were burning on May 20, 2002. This image, including fire detections (red outlines), was made by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). In Alberta, at upper left of the image, it appears that fires are also burning in the boreal forest, the evergreen-dominated forest to the south of the Arctic tundra. Dotted across the landscape are numerous frozen lakes, carved by glaciers millennia ago. The largest lake in the image, at far right, is Lake Winnipeg.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published May 23, 2002
Data acquired May 20, 2002

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

Visible Earth