For the past two months, wildfires and agricultural fires have littered theIndochina landscape, periodically filling the skies with a thick, grayish layerof smoke. This image was acquired on April 5, 2002, by theModerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiomter (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terrasatellite. Each of the red dots on the image represents an individual fire. Asone can see, most are clustered around southern Cambodia, northernThailand, and northern Laos—all areas that have undergone severe deforestationin recent years.
(Please note that the high-resolution scene provided here is 500 meters perpixel. For a copy of this scene at the sensor’s full resolution, visit theMODIS land rapid response system site.)
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
