What is really interesting is why are there fires during winter months in Southern Hemisphere and why are these fires predominately more denser in colder hemisphere than the hottest part of its northern hemisphere counterpart?
Visualize active fires around the world with Javascript
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#12What is really interesting is why are there fires during winter months in Southern Hemisphere and why are these fires predominately more denser in colder hemisphere than the hottest part of its northern hemisphere counterpart?
Not an expert but it could be that those regions have more extreme wet/dry cycles, whereas the hottest parts of North America are deserts without much vegetation.
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#13Red on yellow with black borders is not a great choice of colors. Remember, your goal is to visualize.
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#14What is really interesting is why are there fires during winter months in Southern Hemisphere and why are these fires predominately more denser in colder hemisphere than the hottest part of its northern hemisphere counterpart?
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#15Very cool! Visualizations of data are very important for helping people understand what's significant.
Years ago I worked on a (now defunct) site for a local NPR station in SoCal that displayed information on fires going on in California, and I incorporated geometry from satellites (MODIS and I think something called VIIRS) to implement a fire spread animation. The user could press a play button and see how the fire spread over time.
In retrospect, that feature is kind of like watching car crashes on replay, but I was and am nevertheless proud to have worked on something like that.
The site is no longer working, but I saved a video of it:
EDIT: There were much more interesting spread animations than that but this video is all I have
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#16What is really interesting is why are there fires during winter months in Southern Hemisphere and why are these fires predominately more denser in colder hemisphere than the hottest part of its northern hemisphere counterpart?
Well in Australia for examples that's when fire control measures are done, during the wetter and cooler months there are controlled burns to reduce the amount of flammable material on the ground.
e.g. https://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/hazard-information/bushfire/plann...
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#17I thought this was visualizing people getting fired, oops.
I thought it was visualizing fires caused by JavaScript!
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#18Thanks for mentioning Javascript in the title. That's not very common in posts about Javascript, here.