File:Fires in Angola (MODIS 2018-06-23).jpg
.jpg){kind=small}
Size of this preview: 800 × 542 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 217 pixels | 640 × 434 pixels | 1,024 × 694 pixels | 1,280 × 867 pixels | 2,560 × 1,734 pixels | 4,380 × 2,967 pixels.
Original file (4,380 × 2,967 pixels, file size: 1.73 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
| Description |
English: Fires speckled the landscape of Angola in mid-June 2018.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of the fires (red hot spots) and gray smoke on June 22. The dry season in Angola – and across southern Africa’s tropical savannas – brings widespread fire each year. People set fire for agricultural use during this time, with the aim to clear brush, pasture, to prepare fields for new crops and also to drive game. In Angola, burning often begins sometime in May and becomes more widespread through mid-year before beginning to lighten in September. An extremely dry season after years of drought has created tinder-box-like conditions in parts of Angola. Lack of water has brought significant food insecurity in many parts of the country, leaving many people in subsistence conditions. The combination of need to use fire for cropping and dry conditions makes this a very active fire season. According to Global Forest Watch, between June 14 and June 21 there were 63,313 fire alerts reported in Angola – a country slightly less than twice the size of the state of Texas in the United States. |
||
| Date | Taken on 22 June 2018 | ||
| Source |
|
||
| Author | Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
 |
This media is a product of the Aqua mission Credit and attribution belongs to the mission team, if not already specified in the "author" row |
Licensing
|
This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) |  |
 |
Warnings:
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 01:41, 17 February 2024 | | 4,380 × 2,967 (1.73 MB) | OptimusPrimeBot | #Spacemedia - Upload of http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image06232018_250m.jpg via Commons:Spacemedia |
File usage
No pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed).
.jpg){kind=link}