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Description

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire MOD14 Version 6.1 product is produced daily in 5-minute temporal satellite increments (swaths) at 1 kilometer (km) spatial resolution. 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

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6.1 thermal anomalies and fire data products: (1) Version 6.1 Level-1B (L1B) products have been improved by undergoing various calibration changes that include: changes to the response-versus-scan angle (RVS) approach that affects reflectance bands for Aqua and Terra MODIS, corrections to adjust for the optical crosstalk in Terra MODIS infrared (IR) bands, and corrections to the Terra MODIS forward look-up table (LUT) update for the period 2012 – 2017, and (2) A polarization correction has been applied to the L1B Reflective Solar Bands (RSB).

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
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
2000-02-24 to Present
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
C2271754179-LPCLOUD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
2713915
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. (2021). MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire 5-Min L2 Swath 1km V061 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD14.061 Date Accessed: 2026-05-15

File Naming Convention

MOD14.A2025224.1755.061.2025224212147.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD14) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2025224), the Hours and Minutes of Acquisition provided as HHMM (1755), the Version of the data collection (061), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2025224212147), and the Data Format (hdf).

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

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Title Year Author Topic
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
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 patch-based algorithm for global and daily burned area mapping Campagnolo, M.L., Oom, D., Padilla, M., Pereira, J.M.C. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
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
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
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
Impact of urban growth on air quality in Indian cities using hierarchical bayesian approach Misra, Prakhar, Imasu, Ryoichi, Takeuchi, Wataru Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Estimation of emissions from biomass burning in China (20032017) based on MODIS fire radiative energy data Yin, Lifei, Du, Pin, Zhang, Minsi, Liu, Mingxu, Xu, Tingting, Song, Yu 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 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
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
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
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
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
Detection and inventory of intense pyroconvection in Western North America using GOES-15 daytime infrared data Peterson, David A., Fromm, Michael D., Solbrig, Jeremy E., Hyer, Edward J., Surratt, Melinda L., Campbell, James R. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Impact of the New South Wales fires during October 2013 on regional air quality in eastern Australia Rea, Geraldine, Paton-Walsh, Clare, Turquety, Solene, Cope, Martin, Griffith, David Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Dynamic monitoring of agricultural fires in China from 2010 to 2014 using MODIS and GlobeLand30 data Xie, Huan, Du, Li, Liu, Sicong, Chen, Lei, Gao, Sa, Liu, Shuang, Pan, Haiyan, Tong, Xiaohua Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Comparison of the Hazard Mapping System (HMS) fire product to ground-based fire records in Georgia, USA Hu, Xuefei, Yu, Chao, Tian, Di, Ruminski, Mark, Robertson, Kevin, Waller, Lance A., Liu, Yang Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Modelling spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in South-Eastern Australia Zhang, Yang, Lim, Samsung, Sharples, Jason John Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
The collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products Giglio, Louis, Schroeder, Wilfrid, Justice, Christopher O. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
An initial comparison of the thermal anomaly detection products of MODIS and VIIRS in their observation of Indonesian volcanic activity Blackett, Matthew Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Fire ecology of C-3 and C-4 grasses depends on evolutionary history and frequency of burning but not photosynthetic type Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Detecting gas flares and estimating flaring volumes at individual flow stations using MODIS data Anejionu, Obinna C.D., Blackburn, G. Alan, Whyatt, J. Duncan Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Semi-automated mapping of burned areas in semi-arid ecosystems using MODIS time-series imagery Hardtke, Leonardo A., Blanco, Paula D., Valle, Hector F.del, Metternicht, Graciela I., Sione, Walter F. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
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
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