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 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 to international users and support fire managers around the World. Read more...
	3rd Nov 2009 - Featured Image: Oil Fire, Western India, MODIS image from October 30, 2009. Source: NASA Earth Observatory. Read More...
About the Featured Image: The featured image shows a large oil fire, as scanned by MODIS and detected by the MYD14 Active fire detection product. The large black smoke plume blowing to the south-east is a clear indicator that this is not a biomass fire. Clicking on the image, or on this link will show the larger 1km MODIS subset image, which also shows a large concentration of biomass fires in north-western India, whith the resulting characterstic white-yellowish haze. A more detailed description can be found on the Earth Observatory webpage. The original MODIS Rapid Response image subset can be viewed and downloaded here. Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory, Image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. To view the past Featured Images, please see our archive. [Hide]

FIRMS delivers MODIS hotspot/fire information through:

Email messages: Global Fire Alerts;

Interactive WebGIS: Open Source Web Fire Mapper , ArcIMS Web Fire Mapper;

Latest hotspot/fire data downloads: ESRI Shapefiles, Text Files, KML/Google Earth, OGC WMS, NASA WorldWind Plugin;

Subsets of MODIS images

Click on the graphics below to access the different services:

Announcements

Known issues with Web Fire Mapper
FIRMS has established a page outlining known issues with Web Fire Mapper.

Time series KML for recent fires in Greece
FIRMS has produced a time series KML for fires in Greece from 21 - 25 August 2009. Click here to download.

Improvments made to the FIRMS Fire Email Alerts
We have made some exciting new changes to the FIRMS Fire Email Alerts. These updates are intended to make the alerts system more stable and easy to use. Here are some of the highlights:

- Brand new map interface: The map interface now uses the popular OpenLayers library.
- Ability to make your subscriptions active or inactive.
- Subscribers can now edit their personal information, including their email addresss.
- Name your alert: Create a custom name for your subscription.
- Separate polygons for USA (Lower 48), USA (Alaska), and USA (Hawaii). All the current "USA" subscriptions are defaulted to "USA (Lower 48)"

Updated FIRMS website
FIRMS has updated the website to reflect changes with our WMS, KML, and shapefile offerings of the MODIS active fire/hotspot data. These services are now based on our open source mapping system. We hope these services will be robust and stable.
Click here to access the new WMS service, click here to access the new shapefiles and click here for the KML.

Phasing out of the ArcIMS version of Web Fire Mapper
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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