Fires and smoke in Indochina Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response
Team, NASA/GSFC Biomass burning appeared to be increasing across
Southeast Asia as February turned over to March. This image from
the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the
Aqua satellite shows widespread burning across the region on
March 2, 2004, with active fire detections marked in red. The
fires burning in recent days are smokier than those detected
earlier in February, with smoke pooling in the valleys in the
mountainous terrain of northern Thailand and northwest Laos. In
the morning overpass, taken by the Terra satellite, fewer fires
are visible, though a haze of smoke from previous fires lingers
over the land. Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and
China are visible in this image.