Modis Fire Service

The German Remote Sensing Data Center in the German Aerospace Center offers a new operational service on wild and forest fire detection using the NASA owned MODIS sensors on board of the Terra-1 and Aqua-1 spacecrafts.

Read the official fire service announcement. Get detailed fire service information. Click here for detailed information on wild fires.

Get fires of last seven days as WFS () or WMS ().

Get today's fire list as KML (). Get all fires including yesterday's as KML (). Right click on icon and save as *.kml.

This is a table of the last 50 overpasses, with one or more fires detected. Click on image for detailed information.

	Icon No. of fires Time (UTC) Date Platform and sensor 1 13:46:00 2010-03-10 MODIS - aqua-1 2 12:06:00 2010-03-10 MODIS - aqua-1 5 10:31:00 2010-03-10 MODIS - aqua-1 5 10:20:00 2010-03-10 MODIS - terra-1 2 08:43:00 2010-03-10 MODIS - terra-1 14 13:02:00 2010-03-09 MODIS - aqua-1 3 11:24:00 2010-03-09 MODIS - aqua-1 2 13:59:00 2010-03-08 MODIS - aqua-1 1 12:19:00 2010-03-08 MODIS - aqua-1 3 13:15:00 2010-03-07 MODIS - aqua-1 2 09:50:00 2010-03-07 MODIS - terra-1 2 12:31:00 2010-03-06 MODIS - aqua-1 1 13:27:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - aqua-1 1 11:39:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - terra-1 3 10:13:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - aqua-1 1 10:02:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - terra-1 2 10:01:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - terra-1 2 08:25:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - terra-1 2 08:24:00 2010-03-05 MODIS - terra-1 1 09:19:00 2010-03-04 MODIS - terra-1 3 12:02:00 2010-03-03 MODIS - aqua-1 3 12:00:00 2010-03-03 MODIS - aqua-1 1 10:13:00 2010-03-03 MODIS - terra-1 3 08:37:00 2010-03-03 MODIS - terra-1 15 11:18:00 2010-03-02 MODIS - aqua-1 5 09:31:00 2010-03-02 MODIS - terra-1 1 07:56:00 2010-03-02 MODIS - terra-1 2 12:15:00 2010-03-01 MODIS - aqua-1 2 12:13:00 2010-03-01 MODIS - aqua-1 54 10:37:00 2010-03-01 MODIS - aqua-1 2 10:26:00 2010-03-01 MODIS - terra-1 9 08:49:00 2010-03-01 MODIS - terra-1 2 13:11:00 2010-02-28 MODIS - aqua-1 2 13:08:00 2010-02-28 MODIS - aqua-1 1 11:30:00 2010-02-28 MODIS - aqua-1 17 09:56:00 2010-02-28 MODIS - aqua-1 6 08:07:00 2010-02-28 MODIS - terra-1 1 12:27:00 2010-02-27 MODIS - aqua-1 1 12:25:00 2010-02-27 MODIS - aqua-1 4 10:49:00 2010-02-27 MODIS - aqua-1 2 09:01:00 2010-02-27 MODIS - terra-1 3 11:44:00 2010-02-26 MODIS - aqua-1 3 11:42:00 2010-02-26 MODIS - aqua-1 11 10:08:00 2010-02-26 MODIS - aqua-1 9 08:19:00 2010-02-26 MODIS - terra-1 3 12:39:00 2010-02-25 MODIS - aqua-1