Land Use Change Initiative Firemaps (LUCI)

The MODIS Rapid Response System is a collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD)

http://maps.geog.umd.edu/

Introduction

View an interactive map incorporating fire detection point data, as produced by the MODIS Rapid Response System. For the fire detections, a user can identify attributes in a given date range, and query a particular detection for more information (time, brightness temp, lat/lon). The MODIS Rapid Response System is a collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD).

Data Available:

For the fire detections, a user can identify attributes in a given date range, and query a particular detection for more information (time, brightness temp, lat/lon). General geographic features like countries, cities, and land cover are also displayable and are customized to the regional layers.

Data Range:

Data is available for these selected regions: Brazil, Southern Africa, Conterminous U.S., Russia, Southeast Asia, Australia, Central and Northern Africa, Central and Southern America. A world view is available, but less detailed.

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Data Layers:

MODIS Active fire Detections

Lat/Long (ESRI)

World Countries (ESRI)

AVHRR Land Cover (GLCF)

World Cities (ESRI)

MODIS Surface Reflectance 500M

also, specific layers for each region

Data Collection:

These active fire detections are produced using the same algorithm as the standard MODIS MOD14 Fire and Thermal Anomalies Product.

List of Contributors:

http://maps.geog.umd.edu/contribute.asp

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Data Analysis:

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Presentation/Features:

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Each detection represents the center of a 1 km pixel flagged by the algorithm as containing a fire within that pixel.

Maps are readily printable.

The web site offers users the capability to download GIS shape files from the various Web Fire Maps GIS websites.   The coverages are in ESRI shapefile and ARC/INFO export files format. Each page contains downloadable arc/info/view data layers in a zip format that is readable by both PC and UNIX machines. Each .zip package contains the .shp, .shx, .dbf, .sbx, and .sbn files that correspond to the product layers. PC users can use PKZIP from www.pkware.com to unpack .zip files. UNIX users can use the unzip command. JPEG files are for illustration.

Users:

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Contact:

The MODIS Rapid Response System is a collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD) to prototype rapid access to MODIS products. The MODIS Rapid Response System websites can be found at http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov and http://rapidresponse.umd.edu.

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System Requirements:

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