| Abstract | The MODIS MOD14 (Terra) and MYD14 (Aqua) Active Fire Product identifies and characterizes actively burning fires (wildfires, agricultural fires, etc.) and other thermal anomalies (e.g. volcanoes, etc.) at the time of satellite overpass. Fires and other thermal anomalies are detected at a spatial resolution of 1km. Each 1km fire detection represents the geographic location of a detected fire, but not the actual fire size. The actual size of a detected fire can be much smaller than the 1km spatial resolution of the data.
This geospatial dataset contains the year 2001 MODIS MCD14ML Collection 5, Version 1 data record for the continental United States and environs. MCD14ML is the combined Terra and Aqua MODIS Level 2 swath MOD14/MYD14 Active Fire Product. The data are represented as the geographic centroids of the respective 1km pixel where a fire or other thermal anomaly is detected. |
