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Collection:
NASA Earth Observatory Collection
Title:
Biomass Burning in Southeast Asia
Description:
Dozens of fires (red pixels) were burning in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia on April 2, 2002. There was a particularly large fire just southwest of Ho Chi Minh City near the southernmost tip of Vietnam. Note the large, grey smoke plume blowing westward in this scene.

This image was acquired by the Mod erate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s Ter ra satellite. Please note that the high-resolution scene provided here is 500 meters per pixel. For a copy of this scene at the sensor?s fullest resolution, visit the MOD IS Rapidfire site.

Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MOD IS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Satellite - Sensor:
Terra- MODIS
facet_what:
Terra
facet_where:
Cambodia
facet_where:
Laos
facet_where:
Vietnam
facet_where:
Ho Chi Minh City
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_when:
April 2, 2002
facet_when_year:
2002
UID:
SPD-ETOBS-2645
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Biomass Burning in Southeast Asia