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Description

The MOD14 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MOD14 Version 6.1 data product.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire MOD14 Version 6 product is produced daily in 5-minute temporal satellite increments (swaths). The MOD14 product is used to generate all of the higher level fire products, but can also be used to identify fires and other thermal anomalies, such as volcanoes. Each swath of data is approximately 2,030 kilometers along track (long), and 2,300 kilometers across track (wide).

Known Issues

  • Known issues are described on the MODIS Land Quality Assessment website and in Section 7.2 of the User Guide which covers Pre-November 2000 Data Quality, Detection Confidence, Flagging of Static Sources, and the August 2020 MODIS Aqua Outage

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6 thermal anomalies and fire  data products: (1) Refinements to internal cloud mask, which sometimes flags heavy smoke as clouds, (2) Fix for frequent false alarms occurring in the Amazon that are caused by small (~1 km²) clearings within forests, (3) Fix to correct a bug that causes incorrect assessment of cloud and water pixels adjacent to fire pixels near the scan edge, (4) Detect small fires using dynamic thresholding, (5) Process ocean and coastline pixels to detect fire from oil rigs, and (6) The Version 6 fire mask has the potential to detect fire over water pixels. Therefore, class 3 pixel values have been changed to be classified as “non-fire water pixels”.

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Projects
TERRA
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
1000 Meters x 1000 Meters
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-24 to 2023-02-18
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) ,
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
C2763298065-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Fire Occurrence ,
Surface Thermal Properties ,
Land Surface Temperature ,
THERMAL ANOMALIES

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Giglio, L., & Justice, C. (2015). MOD14 MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire 5-Min L2 Swath 1km V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD14.006 Date Accessed: 2026-06-21

File Naming Convention

MOD14.A2002281.2350.006.2015056111335.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD14) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002281), the Hours and Minutes of Acquisition provided as HHMM (2350), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015056111335), and the Data Format (hdf).

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

DATA PRODUCT SPECIFICATION

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

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Title Year Author Topic
Satellite-based automated burned area detection: a performance assessment of the MODIS MCD45A1 in the Brazilian savanna Araujo, Fernando Moreira De, Ferreira, Laerte G. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Mapping the daily progression of large wildland fires using MODIS active fire data Veraverbeke, Sander, Sedano, Fernando, Hook, Simon J., Randerson, James T., Jin, Yufang, Rogers, Brendan M. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Development of a multi-temporal Kalman filter approach to geostationary active fire detection & fire radiative power (FRP) estimation Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Quantifying the potential for high-altitude smoke injection in the North American boreal forest using the standard MODIS fire products and subpixel-based methods Peterson, David, Hyer, Edward, Wang, Jun Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The empirical study on forest fire insurance of ecological function regions in greater Khingan mountains-a case study in the relationship between forest fire and soil moisture Song, Jingbo, Wang, Yongqing Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
The relationship between particulate pollution levels in Australian cities, meteorology, and landscape fire activity detected from MODIS hotspots Price, Owen F., Williamson, Grant J., Henderson, Sarah B., Johnston, Fay, Bowman, David M. J. S. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Monitoring the transport of biomass burning emission in South America Pereira, Gabriel, Shimabukuro, Yosio E., Moraes, Elisabete C., Freitas, Saulo R., Cardozo, Francielle S., Longo, Karla M. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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