In Western Australia’s southwest corner, a number of fires (marked in yellow) were burning on May 4, 2004, and were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on its morning pass over the region. Many are likely agricultural and other land use fires, but the very smoky fire to the northwest of image center may be a forest fire. The dark, greenish-brown, rectangular patches in the right hand part of the image are parks and preserves where the region’s natural vegetation is being restores or maintained. The bare-looking areas have been converted from natural vegetation landscapes to agricultural ones.
Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
