What is Web Fire Mapper, and who is it aimed at?
Web Fire Mapper is an internet based mapping tool that delivers locations of hotspots/fires in near real time. For selected regions and countries you can view an interactive map showing hotspots/fires for a specified time period, combined with your choice of GIS layers and satellite imagery. Each hotspot detection represents the center of a 1 km pixel flagged as containing one or more actively burning hotspots/fires within that pixel. The hotspots/fires are detected using data from the MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument, on board NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites. Web Fire Mapper is primarily aimed at supporting natural resource managers, by helping them understand when and where hotspots/fires occur.
