Tracking Canada’s Extreme 2023 Fire Season

A new system that draws upon active fire data from satellites is making it easier for scientists to track the spread of wildland fires in near real-time.  

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NASA Earth Observatory animations by Michala Garrison, using Fire Events Data Suite (FEDS) data on fire movement and severity by ingesting thermal observations from VIIRS from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. The FEDS algorithm is based on Chen, Yang, et al. (2022), data for Canada provided by NASA’s Earth Information System (EIS) Project. Basemaps include MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 25, 2023
Data acquired June 1 - July 23, 2023

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NOAA-20 > VIIRS

Suomi NPP > VIIRS

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Applied Sciences