Wildfire

Wildfire EO separates active fire detection, burned-area mapping, smoke monitoring, fuel condition, and damage or severity assessment for fire-front to regional monitoring.^[1][2] FIRMS distributes near-real-time active fire detections from MODIS and VIIRS thermal sensors.^[2][3] Satellite data supports global systems for tracking fire behavior and analyzing wildfire trends, including MODIS and VIIRS active-fire and burned-area information.^[1] Thermal anomaly sensors detect active fire hotspots and fire radiative signals, while vegetation-index mapping supports fuel condition, burn-severity proxies, and post-fire recovery.^[1][2][3] Typical outputs include active fire alerts, hotspot confidence, burned-area maps, perimeters, severity proxies, and risk context.^[1][2]