This is an image of fires and smoke along the Garden Route, South Africa. This image was acquired on 3 November 2018 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, aboard the Terra satellite.
Use the comparison tool to look at the difference between the landscape on 23 October to 3 November 2018 with the Bands 7-2-1 Corrected Reflectance image from MODIS/Terra. This band combination is useful for distinguishing burn scars as a result of the fires (area in dark red on the right B side of the comparison tool, compared with green on the left A side). The bright red areas on the B side, northwest of Plettenberg Bay, show the actively burning fire front.
Visit Worldview to visualize near real-time data from NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
