NASA World Wind Plugin for active fire/hotspot detections

FIRMS provides a plugin for NASA World Wind to display active fire/hotspot detections for the last 48 hours for most of the globe.

Click here to download the Zip file.


NASA World Wind can be downloaded from:

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Instructions:

Extract the zip file and copy the firms-wms XML document and the fires.png file to:
($installation directory)\Config\Earth

For example, in Windows, the default path set for NASA World Wind Version 1.4 is:
C:\Program Files\NASA\World Wind 1.4\Config\Earth

Open NASA World Wind and click on the "FIRMS Hotspots - Past 48 Hours" icon in the tool bar to see the active fire/hotspot detections.
 




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. 
  
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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