AURSEEAursee · method
Data sources and licences
Every dataset Aursee uses, who publishes it, and the licence it is used under.
Sources
Active fires: NASA FIRMS, VIIRS 375 m from Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21. We acknowledge the use of data and imagery from LANCE FIRMS operated by NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
Places: GeoNames cities1000, CC BY 4.0.
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200, CC BY 4.0.
Roads: GRIP4 Global Roads Inventory Project (Meijer et al. 2018), CC BY 4.0.
Lightning: NOAA GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper.
Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
Country borders: Natural Earth 1:10m admin-0, public domain.
Satellite positions: CelesTrak orbital elements.
Use of this site's figures
Figures on Aursee may be quoted with a link to the page they came from. The underlying data belongs to its publishers above and is used under their terms.
More on the method
- What a satellite fire detection isHow VIIRS finds active fires from orbit, what a 375 m detection means, and when a fire is not seen.
- Fires in the dark: how satellites find them at nightWhy a fire is easier to see from orbit at night, how VIIRS picks a flame of a few dozen square metres out of a 375 m pixel, and what “burning in darkness” means on the map.
- Fire radiative power (MW)What fire radiative power measures, how Aursee adds it up, and how to compare two fires.
- How detections become firesThe rule Aursee uses to turn individual satellite pixels into fires you can open, name and follow.
- The burn archive, 2012 to todayHow Aursee remembers where fire has been detected since 2012, and what the history figures on each page mean.
- Lightning near a fireHow Aursee checks for lightning before a fire was first seen, and where that check is possible.
- Land cover and roads under a fireWhat kind of ground a fire is burning on, and how many roads are around it: sources and resolution.
- Weather at a fireWhere the wind, humidity and temperature on a fire page come from, and at what time and resolution.