La detección, monitoreo y mitigación de incendios es un tema de creciente interés, especialmente en regiones con temporadas de incendios más largas, interfaces de áreas silvestres y urbanas extensas, así como sequías más frecuentes y severas. Los incendios antrópicos son una práctica común utilizada para despejar pastizales y tierras agrícolas antes de la época de siembra. De modo similar, los bosques a menudo se destruyen por medio de incendios para usar esas tierras para otros propósitos.
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Wildland fire managers, scientists, and the public benefit from timely and easy-to-access information about current fire activity to provide information about potential risks and support suppression activities. NASA provides multiple sources of time-sensitive satellite imagery and derived data products within the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
FIRMS is a web-based application with a dynamic mapping interface to visualize current and historical satellite imagery, active fire detections/hot spots, and related science data products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildland fire activity and its effects. The application also provides multiple tools for users to access and ingest data as downloadable GIS datasets and map services for use in applications. This three-part training will familiarize participants with the various modules available in FIRMS, explore the range of data and information available and the characteristics of satellite-based active fire detection, and provide hands-on experience that participants can apply to query, access and visualize the data in GIS and other applications.
