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Fires Take a Toll on Australian Forests

Blazes that have raged since October have charred eucalyptus and rainforests in New South Wales.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Eucalyptus forestry data is from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018. VIIRS fire location data from the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS). VIIRS trend data from the University of Maryland. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 12, 2019
Data acquired December 9, 2019

Sources:
Aqua
Landsat 8
Suomi NPP > VIIRS