FIRMS | Fire Information For Resource Management System

The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver global MODIS hotspot/fire locations and burned area information to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. FIRMS is funded by NASA and builds on Web Fire Mapper, a web mapping interface that displays hotspots/fires detected by the MODIS Rapid Response System and delivers near real-time hotspot/fire information and monthly burned area information to international users and support fire managers around the World. Read more...
	August 23, 2010 - Featured Image: Fires in South America Source: Earth Observatory - Natural Hazards Images . Read More...
About the Featured Image: The featured image was captured by the MODIS sensor on board the Aqua satellite. It shows fires burning mostly in Bolivia, but there are fires also burning in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. The smoke from the fires are spreading along the eastern side of the Andes Mountains, as reported by NASA's Earth Observatory. To read the full story, please refer to the original article on the NASA Earth Observatory website. The larger MODIS Rapid Response image subset can be viewed and downloaded here. Image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Content courtesy of Holli Riebeek, NASA Earth Observatory. To view past Featured Images, please see our archive. [Hide]

FIRMS delivers MODIS fire and burned area information through:

Email messages: Global Fire Alerts;

Interactive WebGIS: Web Fire Mapper;

Monthly Burned Area images in Web Fire Mapper;

Latest hotspot/fire data downloads: Shapefiles/Text Files, KML/Google Earth, WMS, World Wind;

Subsets of MODIS images

Click on the graphics below to access the different services:

Announcements

FAO launches the Global Fire Information Management System (August 11, 2010)
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently launched the Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS). GFIMS will become part of the operational monitoring systems at FAO and will complement their existing suite of projects that deliver near real time information to ongoing monitoring and emergency projects, to other UN organizations as well as providing information to the general public. Click here to read the FAO news release.

MODIS Burned Area images in Web Fire Mapper (August 2, 2010)
Monthly MODIS Burned Area images are now available for viewing in Web Fire Mapper. Please visit the background page for more information regarding the burned area product.

FIRMS Email Alerts available in French (July 21, 2010)
FIRMS is now offering the daily, weekly and near-real time (rapid) fire email alerts in French. You have the option to choose to recieve email alerts in French when adding a new subscription or editing an existing subscription.

Phasing out of the ArcIMS version of Web Fire Mapper (March 20, 2010)
FIRMS will be phasing out the ArcIMS version of the Web Fire Mapper within the next few months. Please use the open source version of Web Fire Mapper.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Cooperative Agreement No. NNS06AA04A issued through the Decision Support Program and from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The MODIS active fire data is provided by the MODIS Rapid Response System. For more information about
MODIS Rapid Response, see http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov

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