GFMC: Mato Grosso
Firesin Brazil
26 July 2004
Latest Satellite Scene from MODIS:
Aqua Satellite
25 July 2004
17:25 UTC
(Image based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC)
On July 25, 2004, fire activity in the developing Amazon frontier in northern Mato Grosso, Brazil, appeared to intensify compared to images captured earlier in the month. In the top center of the above image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite, more than a dozen large, smoky fires (marked in red) burned on either side of a road that carves its way northward into the rainforest from cleared areas in the center of the image. In the top right of the scene, fires are burning to the west of a clearing that opens into the forest through a bottleneck at the right edge of the scene. The thick smoke plumes coming from these fires suggests that people are burning forests, rather than already-developed crop or grazing land. The progression of slash-and-burn deforestation away from new roads is a classic part of the land-use cycle in the developing Amazon frontier.
The pendulum of deep green hanging down from the broad expanse of intact forest in the top of the scene is the Xingu Indigenous Peoples Reserve, in the headwaters of the Xingu River, which flows northward to eventually join the Amazon River (Source: Earth Observatory).
See Media Article: Amazon burning makes Brazil a leading polluter (published by: Planet Ark, 20 July 2004)
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. See the Boletim Diário de Monitoramento de Focos de Calor – Amazônia Legal, 23 July 2004.
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
