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The data on this Web site are made available by the Department of Geography, University of Maryland under agreement with and the financial support of NASA under Cooperative Agreement No. NNS06AA04A issued through the Decision Support Program. The data are considered public information, unless otherwise noted, and may be distributed and copied. We strongly recommend that the data made available on this Web site be acquired directly from a NASA/University of Maryland server and not through other sources that may change the data in some way. It is requested that all uses contain an appropriate acknowledgement or credit. Acknowledgements in favor of the University of Maryland should be in the following forms:

- For Online Reference:
NASA/University of Maryland , 2002. MODIS Hotspot / Active Fire Detections. Data set. MODIS Rapid Response Project, NASA/GSFC [producer], University of Maryland , Fire Information for Resource Management System [distributors]. Available on-line [http://maps.geog.umd.edu]

- For Journal Reference:
Justice, C.O., Giglio, L., Korontzi, S., Owens, J., Morisette, J.T., Roy , D., Descloitres, J., Alleaume, S., Petitcolin, F., and Kaufman, Y. (2002). The MODIS fire products. Remote Sensing of Environment 83, 244-262

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