Mexico Fires — May 1998 - Satellites provide observation capability for monitoring different
fire characteristics such as fire susceptibility, active fires, burned
area, smoke, and trace gases. Specifically, these images represent
the detection of smoke, haze, and pollutants associated with raging
fires in Mexico and Central America during May 1998. [329KB PDF]
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MISR - MISR measures the variation of surface and cloud properties, and particles
in the atmosphere, with cameras pointed in nine simultaneous different
viewing directions. MISR monitors monthly, seasonal, and long-term
interactions between sunlight and these components of Earth's environment. [200kb PDF]
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MODIS - The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) measures
the atmosphere, land and ocean processes, (including surface temperature
of both the land and ocean), ocean color, global vegetation, cloud
characteristics, temperature and moisture profiles, and snow cover.
MODIS views the entire surface (land, oceans, clouds, aerosols, etc.)
of the Earth every one to two days at a "moderate resolution" of
one quarter to one kilometer. [244kb PDF]
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MODIS - Europe - This spectacular Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
image of Europe is based on the most detailed truecolor image of
the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations,
scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations
of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless,
true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet. [2.2MB PDF]
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MODIS - Japan - This spectacular Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
image of Japan, eastern North and South Korea, northeast China,
and southeast Russia is based on the most detailed true-color image
of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based
observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months
of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds
into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of
our planet. [2.9MB PDF]
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MODIS - Rapid Response - In mid-July 2002, lightning started a fire in the Klamath Mountains
in southwestern Oregon that eventually burned over the state line
into California and consumed more than 400,000 acres by late August.
The Biscuit fire became one of the largest in the state's history,
threatening not only human life and property, but also three nationally
designated wild and scenic rivers and habitat for several species
of plants and animals already at risk of extinction. Firefighters
also had their hands full with other fires across the state, including
the Tiller Complex Fire to the northeast. [3MB PDF]
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MODIS Monitoring Sea Surface Temperature, Clorophyll Concentration and Photosynthetic Activity - A sensor orbiting the Earth aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites
is now collecting the most detailed measurements ever made of the
ocean’s surface environment. Like a sophisticated thermometer
in space, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
can measure sea surface temperature every day over the entire globe. [121KB PDF]
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MOPITT - MOPITT is an infrared gas correlation radiometer that is making the first long-term global observations of carbon monoxide and methane as Terra circles the Earth from pole to pole, 14.4 times every day. From these measurements the sources, motions and sinks of CO can be determined. [188kb PDF]
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Southern African Regional Science Initiative — SAFARI 2000 - The Southern African Regional Science Initiative, SAFARI 2000, was
an international science initiative aimed at developing a better understanding
of the southern African land-atmosphere-human system. The goal of SAFARI
2000 wais to identify and understand the relationships between the
physical, chemical, biological and anthropogenic processes that underlie
the land and atmospheric systems of southern Africa. [265kb PDF]
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Terra - NASA's commitment to studying the Earth as a global system continued
with the launch of the Terra spacecraft in December 1999 representing
a key contribution by NASA to the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Terra was the first of several EOS spacecraft that are observing the
Earth's continents, oceans and atmosphere. It has five state-of-the-art
instruments achieving measurement capability and accuracy never known
before. [268kb PDF]
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