NASA FIRMS Fire Information for Resource Management
Near-real-time satellite active fire detection from MODIS and VIIRS with global coverage relevant to post-fire watershed impact, water quality degradation, and burn severity assessment
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global, near-real-time fire detection
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Space Agency
What's inside
- Active Fire Detection
- MODIS Fire
- VIIRS Fire
- Burn Area
- Near-Real-Time Alerts
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
Because it has: MODIS Fire
- 02
Long records
Use consistent records going back decades.
- 03
Hotspots and trends
Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
- 02
Data fusion
Blend satellite and ground data into one better estimate.
- 03
Risk maps
Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
FIRMS API firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api (MAP_KEY)
Licence: NASA public domain
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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