Evolution of Active Fire Monitoring Capabilities from the US Geostationary and Polar Orbiting Satellite Series

a NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Camp Springs, MD 20746, USA – [email protected] b University of Maryland, Department of Geography, College Park, MD 20742, USA – (justice, giglio)@hermes.geog.umd.edu c Consultant, Grass Valley, CA 95949, USA – [email protected] d University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD 20740, USA – [email protected] e Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies / University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA – [email protected]