As is common during the dry season, satellites detected many fires in Northern Territory.
Image of the Day Land Fires
The satellite-based atlas includes information about more than 13 million fires.
Image of the Day Remote Sensing
Though fires are larger and more frequent at the end of the dry season, several fires burned in Western Australia and Northern Territory in April 2015.
Land Fires
The beginning of the dry season also brings the beginning of the burning season to fire-prone savannas and grasslands.
Intense bushfires in northern Australia spawned pyrocumulus clouds in October 2012.
Much of Australia’s Northern Territory is charred in this image from September 30 after fires burned an area roughly the size of England in 2011.
Fires
Two large wildfires burn in the tree-covered hills east of Perth, Australia, in this true-color image from February 6, 2011.
Burn scars have gotten larger near Australia’s Lake Mackay.
Image of the Day Land Human Presence
Hazardous fire conditions led to widespread, large fires in Queensland, Australia in mid-November.
Many large fires burn across central Australia in this image from September 30, 2011.