Overview Earth and Civilization in Macroscope — Blog of the Long Now

Orange pixels show as many as 10 fires, while red areas show as few as 1 fire per day. Land surface temperature is how hot the "surface" of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location. From a satellite's point of view, the "surface" is whatever it sees when it looks through the atmosphere to the ground.. About Earth Fire Alliance Earth Fire Alliance (EFA) is a community-led 501 (c) (3) nonprofit coalition founded to transform how the world observes and responds to wildfire. Committed to radical collaboration and rapid action, EFA develops user-driven technologies that make wildfire data accessible and actionable on a global scale.

Orange pixels show as many as 10 fires, while red areas show as few as 1 fire per day. Some of the global patterns that appear in the fire maps over time are the result of natural cycles of rainfall, dryness, and lightning. For example, naturally occurring fires are common in the boreal forests of Canada in the summer.. The world is on fire, or so it appears in an image from NASA's Worldview software.