GFMC: Mato Grosso
Firesin Brazil
28 July 2004
Latest Satellite Scene from MODIS:
Aqua Satellite
27 July 2004
17:15 UTC
Aqua Satellite
27 July 2004
17:10 UTC
(Image based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC)
In Brazil, clearing and maintaining farm and pasture land is often done through fire. This burning of trees and grasses produces, among other gases, high levels of carbon monoxide. In July, a large number of fires were observed burning in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The elevated carbon monoxide concentrations from these fires have been detected by the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) remote-sensing instrument flying on the Terra satellite. The image is a composite of data collected over a week, July 19 through July 26, 2004. It shows the total column amount of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, with red and yellow indicating regions of high pollution (Source: Earth Observatory).
(NASA MOPITT image created using data courtesy the NCAR/UCAR MOPITT Instrument Team)
See the following media articles:
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Brazilian Amazon may become savanna: scientist (published by: TerraDaily, 28 July 2004)
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Amazon fires change weather, speed deforestation (published by: ENN, 28 July 2004)
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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, 27 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
