GFMC: Mato Grosso
Firesin Brazil
16 July 2004
Latest Satellite Scene from MODIS:
Terra Satellite
15 July 2004
14:00 UTC
(Image based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC)
In northern Mato Grosso, Brazil, land cover change from dense rainforest to roads and agricultural land is often achieved through fire. People also use fire to maintain agricultural and pasture land. This image shows numerous fires (marked in red) surrounding the Xingu Indigenous Peoples Park, located in the headwaters of the Xingu River. To the east is the Bananal Wetlands surrounding the Araguaia River. In the top part of the image, the dense rainforest is a nearly uniform wash of vibrant green. The forest is now laced with roads, which appear as fuzzy, light green lines. The fuzziness comes from clearings that have sprung up along the roads (source: Earth Observatory).
Maps with a summary of the occurence of vegetation fires in Brazil and in most of South America are prepared and released by CPTEC/INPE in the Internet soon after the overpasses of the NOAA-series meteorological satellites, whose AVHRR images are used in the detection. Source: http://www.cptec.inpe.br/products/queimadas/
Each red dot in the map shows a pixel with temperatures of some hundred degrees C, normally associated only to active fires. The table on the right side of the map shows the total number of fire pixels dectected by state and by country, with the percentage corresponding to the cloud cover in each region, where the detection of fires was precluded.
Geographical coordinateos of all vegetation fires detected in the AVHRR/NOAA images are available at CPTEC/INPE, and are distributed in near-real-time to registered users. Furhter information can be obtained with aless@cptec.inpe.br, or in the phone number ++55(12)560-9261.
For more information, also in portugese, see the webpage: http://www.cptec.inpe.br/products/queimadas/info_mapa.htm
Additionally PROARCO (Programa de Prevenção e Controle de Queimadas e Incêndios Florestais na Amazônia Legal) is providing a daily update at: http://www2.ibama.gov.br/proarco/relatorio/boletimaml.doc.
For more details see daily fire situation updates of Brazil and neighbouring countries:
https://gfmc.online/current/archive/br/2001/10/br_10082001.htm
More information on Queimadas
http://www.ambientebrasil.com.br/composer.php3?base=./florestal/index.html&conteudo=./florestal/click/queimada.html
