Comparing with past years…
Nile Delta, Egypt: hotspots per month, harmonized to VIIRS S-NPP. Pick a month to see it on the map.
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Click a dot on the map, or one of the strongest fires below.
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VIIRS joined MODIS in 2012 with sharper pixels, so the same fires suddenly made more hotspots. Glue the raw counts together and every place looks like it started burning more in 2012. The harmonized record converts MODIS years to what VIIRS would have counted, so years can be compared.
How the conversion works