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Wildfires

NASA provides many resources for monitoring and tracking wildfires.

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Open Science

Open Science empowers an inclusive, collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge.

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Air Quality

Air pollution is one of the largest global environmental and health threats.

This is a rectangular image of a sunglint over land. The upper two-thirds of the image shows land with clouds floating over it. The lower third of the image is largely ocean. In the center of the image is a red outline of a square and in the center of the square is a red, green, and blue sunglint.
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A Glint of Understanding
NASA researchers and data offer new insights into the impish and interesting visual phenomenon of sunglint in satellite imagery.
An image of South America from FIRMS showing the location of active fires on the landscape.
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Data Tool in Focus: Fire Information for Resource Management System
Global and US/Canada active Fire Maps enable users to visualize the location, extent, and impact of wildfires with minimal delay.
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Revolutionizing the Foundation of Data Product Development
The Algorithm Publication Tool (APT) streamlines the authoring of Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBDs), which guide how data are processed.
This aerial image shows a fire burning in a forest in Canada's Northwest Territories
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NASA FIRMS Plays a Significant Role in Northwest Territories Fire Detection
Data from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) help personnel in Canada's Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Climate Change manage wildfires.
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Connecting Western Water Managers with NASA Earth Science Data
NASA's Western Water Applications Office (WWAO) gets NASA Earth science data into the hands of Western U.S. water managers.
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New Tool Provides Rapid Evaluation of Water Quality

A combination of Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery, NASA near real-time data, and machine learning provides near real-time access to high-resolution water quality maps.

Webinar: Expand Your View of Earth with NASA Worldview

Join us Wednesday, July 17, at 2 p.m., EDT [-4:00 UTC], to learn how to use the NASA Worldview imagery mapping and visualization tool to explore Earth's interconnected systems and natural events.

POWER Releases its New Data Access Viewer enhanced (DAVe)

The new application from NASA's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project replaces its previous Data Access Viewer.

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Prithvi-weather-climate: Advancing Our Understanding of the Atmosphere

An in-depth look at the development, attributes, and (many) benefits of this foundation model for applying artificial intelligence (AI) to weather and climate.

Geostationary Active Fire Detection Data in FIRMS

Active fire detection data from five geostationary sensors are available in NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) and collectively provide global coverage.

Bracing for Another Year of Pyrocumulonimbus “Fire Thunderstorms” in Canada

NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides natural resource managers with near real-time active fire/hotspot locations using satellite-derived fire information.

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Nighttime image of the Fresno June Lightning Complex Fire, California on 27 June 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite
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Fresno June Lightning Complex Fire, California

Image captured on June 27, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.

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