Every hour it queries NASA FIRMS for VIIRS 375 m detections from three satellites — Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 — groups them into fires, and rebuilds 2,406 pages across 63 countries. Each figure carries its instrument, its resolution and its error bar.
What the money already pays for
Every picture below is redrawn from the live feed each hour, so what you are looking at is this morning, not a screenshot.
Every fire on EarthThermal anomalies from VIIRS at 375 m, three platforms, refreshed every hour and about three hours behind the overpass.Lightning, and whether anyone was lookingA flash within 25 km in the day before a fire was first seen, and a coverage flag, so no flash never quietly means no instrument.Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.A map inside every emailThe picture is drawn and attached to the message rather than loaded from a server, so it shows up even with remote images turned off.Your account, your callSign-in is a link that works once, for thirty minutes, so there is no password to choose or lose. Camera GPS and serial are stripped before a photo is stored. Delete erases the address, the watch list, the queued mail and the files.What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Where the money goes
The server. One machine, running the hourly ingest, the page build and the mail.
Storage. The detection archive, the burn history and the photographs readers send.
Imagery. Higher-resolution scenes for the fires that need them, which are charged per scene.
The satellite data itself is public and free. NASA FIRMS, ESA WorldCover, NOAA GOES, GRIP4 and Open-Meteo cost nothing to query; the cost is in running the thing that queries them every hour and never stops.
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Other ways
Report a beach, send a photograph of a fire you can see, or write to contact@aursee.org and tell us what the instrument got wrong. A correction is worth more than most donations.
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