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Fires in Southeast Asia: Natural Hazards
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Fires in Southeast Asia: Natural Hazards
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West of where the myriad channels of the Ganges River flow into the Bay of Bengal, numerous fires were burning in Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar on April 4, 2005. This image of the area on that day was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite. Locations where MODIS detected actively burning fires are outlined in red.
The image, which is centered farther west than previous images in this series, focuses closely on scores of fires burning in India, just across the southeastern border of Bangladesh. In the large version of the image, fires are scattered across a wide portion of all three countries. Many of the fires are emitting large plumes of smoke, which drifts eastward.
MODIS cannot tell us specifically whether a fire is naturally occurring or caused by humans. However, the region's monsoonal climate is wrapping up its dry phase, which is typically a time for agricultural burning. In addition, Southeast Asia is experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, which may be elevating the risk of both accidental and natural wildfires. The fires detected by MODIS, therefore, may be a mixture of both types of burning. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The rapeidfire.sci.gsfc. nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team provides the image at rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?FAS _Bangladesh/2005094/ FAS_Bangladesh.20050 94.aqua additional resolutions.
Image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
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West of where the myriad channels of the Ganges River flow into the Bay of Bengal, numerous fires were burning in Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar on April 4, 2005. This image of the area on that day was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite. Locations where MODIS detected actively burning fires are outlined in red.
The image, which is centered farther west than previous images in this series, focuses closely on scores of fires burning in India, just across the southeastern border of Bangladesh. In the large version of the image, fires are scattered across a wide portion of all three countries. Many of the fires are emitting large plumes of smoke, which drifts eastward.
MODIS cannot tell us specifically whether a fire is naturally occurring or caused by humans. However, the region's monsoonal climate is wrapping up its dry phase, which is typically a time for agricultural burning. In addition, Southeast Asia is experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, which may be elevating the risk of both accidental and natural wildfires. The fires detected by MODIS, therefore, may be a mixture of both types of burning. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The rapeidfire.sci.gsfc. nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team provides the image at rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?FAS _Bangladesh/2005094/ FAS_Bangladesh.20050 94.aqua additional resolutions.
Image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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What -- Aqua
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What -- Aqua
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Where -- Myanmar
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Where -- Myanmar
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Where -- Bay of Bengal
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Where -- Bay of Bengal
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Where -- Bangladesh
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Where -- Bangladesh
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Aqua
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Myanmar
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Bay of Bengal
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Bay of Bengal
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Bangladesh
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Bangladesh.AMOA20050 94
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Bangladesh.AMOA20050 94
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-07-26 05:42:59
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2011-07-26 05:42:59
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2011-07-26 05:42:59
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2011-07-26 05:42:59
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/Bangladesh.AMO A2005094/Bangladesh. AMOA2005094_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/Bangladesh.AMO A2005094/Bangladesh. AMOA2005094_lrg.jpg
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Bangladesh.AMOA20050 94_lrg.jpg
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Bangladesh.AMOA20050 94_lrg.jpg
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2005-04-04
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2005
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