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Description

The MYD14 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MYD14 Version 6.1 data product.

The Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire MYD14 Version 6 product is produced daily in 5-minute temporal satellite increments (swaths). The MYD14 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/VIIRS 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 km x 1 km) 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) Detects small fires using dynamic thresholding, (5) Processes 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
Aqua
Instruments
MODIS
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
2002-07-04 to 2023-02-26
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
C2763370241-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Land Surface Temperature ,
Fire Occurrence ,
Surface Thermal Properties ,
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). MYD14 MODIS/Aqua Thermal Anomalies/Fire 5-Min L2 Swath 1km V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD14.006 Date Accessed: 2026-05-19

File Naming Convention

MYD14.A2002281.2350.006.2015056111150.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MYD14) 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 (2015056111150), and the Data Format (hdf).

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How emissions uncertainty influences the distribution and radiative impacts of smoke from fires in North America Carter, Therese S., Heald, Colette L., Jimenez, Jose L., Campuzano-Jost, Pedro, Kondo, Yutaka, Moteki, Nobuhiro, Schwarz, Joshua P., Wiedinmyer, Christine, Darmenov, Anton S., da Silva, Arlindo M., Kaiser, Johannes W. Population Size, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Diagnosing spatial biases and uncertainties in global fire emissions inventoriesIndonesia as regional case study Liu, Tianjia, Mickley, Loretta J., Marlier, Miriam E., DeFries, Ruth S., Khan, Md Firoz, Latif, Mohd Talib, Karambelas, Alexandra Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Burned Area
Estimating wildfire fuel consumption with multitemporal airborne laser scanning data and demonstrating linkage with MODIS-derived fire radiative energy McCarley, T. Ryan, Hudak, Andrew T., Sparks, Aaron M., Vaillant, Nicole M., Meddens, Arjan J.H., Trader, Laura, Mauro, Francisco, Kreitler, Jason, Boschetti, Luigi Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Influence of satellite sensor pixel size and overpass time on undercounting of cerrado/savannah landscape-scale fire radiative power (FRP)An assessment using the MODIS airborne simulator Sperling, Samuel, Wooster, Martin J., Malamud, Bruce D. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products Wickramasinghe, Chathura, Wallace, Luke, Reinke, Karin, Jones, Simon Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
A review on early forest fire detection systems using optical remote sensing Barmpoutis, Panagiotis, Papaioannou, Periklis, Dimitropoulos, Kosmas, Grammalidis, Nikos Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Accuracy and spatiotemporal distribution of fire in the Brazilian biomes from the MODIS burned-area products Santana, Nickolas Castro, de Carvalho, Osmar Abilio, Gomes, Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso, Guimaraes, Renato Fontes Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Satellite-based fire progression mappingA comprehensive assessment for large fires in Northern California Scaduto, Erica, Chen, Bin, Jin, Yufang Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Satellite monitoring of the wildfire in Siberia and fire emissions estimation Ponomarev, E.I., Litvintsev, K.Yu., Ponomareva, T.V., Shvetsov, E.G., Yakimov, N.D. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Potential underestimation of satellite fire radiative power retrievals over gas flares and wildland fires Kumar, Sanath Sathyachandran, Hult, John, Picotte, Joshua, Peterson, Birgit Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Persistent fire foci in all biomes undermine the Paris Agreement in Brazil da Silva Junior, Carlos Antonio, Teodoro, Paulo Eduardo, Delgado, Rafael Coll, Teodoro, Larissa Pereira Ribeiro, Lima, Mendelson, de Andrea Pantaleao, Ariane, Baio, Fabio Henrique Rojo, de Azevedo, Gileno Brito, de Oliveira Sousa Azevedo, Glauce Tais, Capristo-Silva, Guilherme Fernando, Arvor, Damien, Facco, Cassiele Uliana Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Land Surface Temperature, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Rapid recent deforestation incursion in a vulnerable indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon and fire-driven emissions of fine particulate aerosol pollutants de Oliveira, Gabriel, Chen, Jing M., Mataveli, Guilherme A. V., Chaves, Michel E. D., Seixas, Hugo T., Cardozo, Francielle da S., Shimabukuro, Yosio E., He, Liming, Stark, Scott C., dos Santos, Carlos A. C. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Connecting crop productivity, residue fires, and air quality over northern India Jethva, Hiren, Torres, Omar, Field, Robert D., Lyapustin, Alexei, Gautam, Ritesh, Kayetha, Vinay Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Aerosol Extinction
Characterization and trends of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) fire emissions in the Brazilian Cerrado during 2002-2017 Mataveli, Guilherme Augusto Verola, Silva, Maria Elisa Siqueira, Franca, Daniela de Azeredo, Brunsell, Nathaniel Alan, de Oliveira, Gabriel, Cardozo, Francielle da Silva, Bertani, Gabriel, Pereira, Gabriel Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Aerosol optical characteristics during the biomass burning season in southeastern Mexico Carabali, Giovanni, Rios, Blanca, Florean-Cruz, Lizeth, Estevez, Hector, Valdes-Barron, Mauro, Bonifaz, Roberto, Riveros-Rosas, David Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
A contextual and multitemporal active-fire detection algorithm based on FengYun-2G S-VISSR data Lin, Zhengyang, Chen, Fang, Li, Bin, Yu, Bo, Jia, Huicong, Zhang, Meimei, Liang, Dong Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Analysis of equivalent black carbon multi-year data at an oil pre-treatment plantIntegration with satellite data to identify black carbon transboundary sources Castagna, Jessica, Calvello, Mariarosaria, Esposito, Francesco, Pavese, Giulia Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Investigating smoke aerosol emission coefficients using MODIS active fire and aerosol productsA case study in the CONUS and Indonesia Lu, Xiaoman, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Li, Fangjun, Cochrane, Mark A. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The Controlling Factors of Atmospheric Formaldehyde (HCHO) in Amazon as Zhang, Yuxiang, Li, Rui, Min, Qilong, Bo, Haixu, Fu, Yuyun, Wang, Yipu, Gao, Zongting Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The primary convective pathway for observed wildfire emissions in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphereA targeted reinterpretation Fromm, Michael, Peterson, David, Di Girolamo, Larry Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The influence of fire frequency on the structure and botanical composition of savanna ecosystems Ribeiro, Natasha, Ruecker, Gernot, Govender, Navashni, Macandza, Valerio, Pais, Aurelio, Machava, Domingos, Chauque, Aniceto, Lisboa, Sa Nogueira, Bandeira, Romana Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Estimation of black carbon emissions from Siberian fires using satellite observations of absorption and extinction optical depths Konovalov, Igor B., Lvova, Daria A., Beekmann, Matthias, Jethva, Hiren, Mikhailov, Eugene F., Paris, Jean-Daniel, Belan, Boris D., Kozlov, Valerii S., Ciais, Philippe, Andreae, Meinrat O. Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
A spatiotemporal contextual model for forest fire detection using Himawari-8 satellite data Xie, Zixi, Song, Weiguo, Ba, Rui, Li, Xiaolian, Xia, Long Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Satellite-Observed Impacts of Wildfires on Regional Atmosphere Fu, Yuyun, Li, Rui, Huang, Jianguo, Bergeron, Yves, Fu, Yunfei, Wang, Yu, Gao, Zongting Nitrogen Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Air Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Geopotential Height, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Ozone, Total Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Tropospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice
Shortwave IR adaption of the mid-infrared radiance method of fire radiative power (FRP) retrieval for assessing industrial gas flaring output Fisher, Daniel, Wooster, Martin J. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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