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Wildfires News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Wildfires.
An upcoming training offered by NASA's ARSET program explores how to use FIRMS to track wildland fire activity and its effects.
News
Image captured on Mar 26, 2025, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-21 platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Users of NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) can now differentiate between fires caused by burning vegetation and fires from natural heat sources or industrial heat sources.
Blog
Image captured on Jan 12, 2025, by the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2A platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Satellite-based maps offer quick first alerts and approximate locations of potential wildfires that are then precisely tracked and fought by teams on the ground.
Feature Article
Image captured on Jan 8, 2025, by the MODIS instrument aboard the Aqua platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Image captured on Dec 25, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-21 platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Image captured on Dec 18, 2024, by the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2B platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
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