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MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire 8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V005

V005 MOD14A2 Changes (abbreviated Points of Interest below)

V005 MOD14A2 Science Data Sets (specifications for data layers)

V005 MOD14A2 Quality Information

Data Characteristics Area: ~10 degrees x 10 degrees Dimensions:  1200 x 1200 rows/columns File Size: ~0.04 MB Resolution: 1 kilometer Projection: Sinusoidal Fire Mask Data Type: 8-bit unsigned integer Data Format: HDF-EOS Science Data Sets (SDS HDF Layers): 2

The images above represent fire indications composited March 6 – 13, 2007, an 8-day period during which the southern U.S. was subjected to numerous prescribed burns.  Using the MOD14A2 Fire_Mask a color code was applied to highlight fires in yellow, water bodies in blue, and leaving land area in black.  Each yellow pixel is 1km2. The image on the left is the entire tile h10v05, including most noticeably the Mississippi River, and portions of the surrounding southern States.  On the right is zoomed view along the Gulf of Mexico showing proliferate fire activity throughout Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

V005 Change Points of Interest:

• Internal HDF compression reduces products to ~5% of their uncompressed size.
• SDS "most confident detected fire" renamed as "FireMask".
• Reduced 32-bit QA to simpler 8-bit layer.
• Added global HDF attributes to simplify use of tile-level QA.

Product Description
MODIS Thermal Anomalies/Fire products are primarily derived from MODIS 4- and 11-micrometer radiances. The fire detection strategy is based on absolute detection of a fire (when the fire strength is sufficient to detect), and on detection relative to its background (to account for variability of the surface temperature and reflection by sunlight). Numerous tests are employed to reject typical false alarm sources like sun glint or an unmasked coastline.

MOD14A2 data are 8-day fire-mask composites at 1-kilometer resolution provided as a gridded level-3 product in the Sinusoidal projection.  Science Data Sets include the fire-mask and algorithm quality.

The Terra MODIS instrument acquires data twice daily (10:30 AM and PM), as does the Aqua MODIS (1:30 PM and AM). These four daily MODIS fire observations serve to advance global monitoring of the fire process and its effects on ecosystems, the atmosphere, and climate.

Version-5 MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire products are Validated Stage 1, meaning that accuracy has been estimated using a small number of independent measurements obtained from selected locations and time periods and ground-truth/field program efforts.  Although there may be later improved versions, these data are ready for use in scientific publications.

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Product Description http://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/fire.htm

User Guide http://modis-fire.umd.edu/MOD14.asp

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