What is FIRMS and who is it aimed at?
FIRMS integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver global MODIS hotspot/active fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. FIRMS was developed by the University of Maryland with funds from NASA. FIRMS is currently being transitioned to an operational system at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO). Click here for more information. At its core, the Web Fire Mapper web mapping interface displays near-real time hotspots/fires processed by the MODIS Rapid Response System. These data are also provided in other formats including email alerts, image subsets, WMS services and KML, shape and text files. FIRMS is primarily aimed at supporting natural resource managers, researchers, planners and policy makers by helping them understand when and where fires occur and delivering the fire information in near real-time and in easy-to-use formats. Each hotspot/active fire location represents the center of a 1km pixel (approx
