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Description

The MOD14A1 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MOD14A1 Version 6.1 data product.

The Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire Daily (MOD14A1) Version 6 data are generated every eight days at 1 kilometer (km) spatial resolution as a Level 3 product. MOD14A1 contains eight consecutive days of fire data conveniently packaged into a single file.

The Science Dataset (SDS) layers include the fire mask, pixel quality indicators, maximum fire radiative power (MaxFRP), and the position of the fire pixel within the scan. Each layer consists of daily per pixel information for each of the eight days of data acquisition.

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
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
1000 Meters x 1000 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Sinusoidal Tiling System
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-18 to 2023-02-17
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
C2763298073-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
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). MOD14A1 MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire Daily L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD14A1.006 Date Accessed: 2026-05-19

File Naming Convention

MOD14A1.A2002273.h24v07.006.2015057061424.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD14A1) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002273), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h24v07), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015057061424), and the Data Format (hdf).

Documents

Publications Citing This Dataset

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Spatio-temporal patterns of extreme fires in Amazonian forests Cano-Crespo, Ana, Traxl, Dominik, Thonicke, Kirsten Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Anisotropy, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Spatial accessibility of anthropogenic fire ignition sources of grassland fire in northeast China Zhang, Zhengxiang, Li, Jianjie, Yu, Shan, Zhao, Jianjun Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Remote sensing-based operational modeling of fuel ignitability in Hyrcanian mixed forest, Iran Adab, Hamed, Kanniah, Kasturi Devi, Solaimani, Karim Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Utilization of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery for Improving Burnt Area Mapping Accuracy Nolde, Michael, Plank, Simon, Riedlinger, Torsten Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Reflectance, Burned Area
Using a new top-down constrained emissions inventory to attribute the previously unknown source of extreme aerosol loadings observed annually in the monsoon Asia free troposphere Wang, Shuo, Cohen, Jason Blake, Deng, Weizhi, Qin, Kai, Guo, Jianping Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Year-long concurrent max-doas observations of nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde at pune: Understanding diurnal and seasonal variation drivers Biswas, Mriganka Sekhar, Mahajan, Anoop S. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Crop residue burning practices across north India inferred from household survey dataBridging gaps in satellite observations Liu, Tianjia, Mickley, Loretta J., Singh, Sukhwinder, Jain, Meha, DeFries, Ruth S., Marlier, Miriam E. Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
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
A self-adaptive wildfire detection algorithm with two-dimensional otsu optimization Zhang, Guoyong, Li, Bo, Luo, Jing, He, Lifu Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
A classification scheme to determine wildfires from the satellite record in the cool grasslands of southern CanadaConsiderations for fire occurrence modelling and warning criteria Thompson, Dan K., Morrison, Kimberly Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Biomass burning spatiotemporal variations over South and Southeast Asia Yin, Shuai Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The abnormal change of air quality and air pollutants induced by the forest fire in Sumatra and Borneo in 2015 Yin, Shuai, Wang, Xiufeng, Guo, Meng, Santoso, Heri, Guan, Hongyou Nitrogen Dioxide, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The spatial and temporal impact of agricultural crop residual burning on local land surface temperature in three provinces across China from 2015 to 2017 Zhang, Wenting, Yu, Mengmeng, He, Qingqing, Wang, Tianwei, Lin, Lu, Cao, Kai, Huang, Wei, Fu, Peihong, Chen, Jiaxin Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Osmont, Dimitri, Brugger, Sandra, Gilgen, Anina, Weber, Helga, Sigl, Michael, Modini, Robin L., Schworer, Christoph, Tinner, Willy, Wunderle, Stefan, Schwikowski, Margit Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, 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
Crop residue open field burning in Pakistan; multi-year high spatial resolution emission inventory for 20002014 Azhar, Ramisha, Zeeshan, Muhammad, Fatima, Khunsa Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Influence of straw burning on urban air pollutant concentrations in Northeast China Wang, Zhenzhen, Zhao, Jianjun, Xu, Jiawen, Jia, Mingrui, Li, Han, Wang, Shijun Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Influence of biomass burning on local air pollution in mainland Southeast Asia from 2001 to 2016 Yin, Shuai, Wang, Xiufeng, Zhang, Xirui, Guo, Meng, Miura, Moe, Xiao, Yi Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Midterm fire danger prediction using satellite imagery and auxiliary thematic layers Stefanidou, Alexandra, Gitas, Ioannis Z., Stavrakoudis, Dimitris, Eftychidis, Georgios Reflectance, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Object-based classification of forest disturbance types in the conterminous United States Huo, Lian-Zhi, Boschetti, Luigi, Sparks, Aaron M. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Brightness Temperature, Vegetation Index, Reflectance, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
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
Collective impacts of biomass burning and synoptic weather on surface PM2.5 and CO in Northeast China Li, Yichen, Liu, Jane, Han, Han, Zhao, Tianliang, Zhang, Xun, Zhuang, Bingliang, Wang, Tijian, Chen, Huimin, Wu, Yue, Li, Mengmeng Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Temporal-spatial analysis of crop residue burning in China and its impact on aerosol pollution Yu, Mengmeng, Yuan, Xiaolei, He, Qingqing, Yu, Yuhan, Cao, Kai, Yang, Yong, Zhang, Wenting Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Risk assessment and regionalization of fire disaster based on analytic hierarchy process and MODIS dataA case study of Inner Mongolia, China Jia, Xu, Gao, Yong, Wei, Baocheng, Wang, Shan, Tang, Guodong, Zhao, Zhonghua Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, 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
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