Fires in Central Brazil

The solid green expanse of the Amazon Rainforest is increasingly broken by roads and tracts of farmland. This image of Mato Grosso state in southern Brazil shows numerous fires (red dots) detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) around the Xingu National Park and Indigenous Peoples Preserve, which hangs like a pendulum down from intact forest to the north.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published July 22, 2003
Data acquired July 22 - 22, 2003

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Topic:

Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Fires

Collections:

MODIS Rapid Response

Visible Earth