[Aztlan] Yearly Satellite Photo Of Fires

[Hube Smith]

My people in South-Central Yucatan (Tekax-Teabo area) are anguished. There 
has been so much rain

that no one has burned. Planting time is fast-approaching.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elaine Day Schele" <eschele at austin.rr.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: [Aztlan] Yearly Satellite Photo Of Fires


> Fires in Mexico and Guatemala
>
> Southern Mexico and northern Central America experience a dry season that
> runs from roughly February through May each year. During that time, fires
> are common, both intentional agriculture-related fires as well as 
> accidental
> forest fires. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging
> Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA' Terra <http://terra.nasa.gov> 
> satellite
> on May 7, 2008, shows scores of fires (locations marked in red) burning
> across the mountains of southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, and 
> northern
> Guatemala. Fires are especially concentrated in the state of Chiapas, near
> the Mexico-Guatemala border.
>
> The high-resolution image provided <below> is at MODIS' maximum spatial
> resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid
> Response Team provides twice-daily
> <http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/servir/>  images of the region in
> additional resolutions and formats.
>
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/May2008/CAmerica__TM
> O_2008128_lrg.jpg
>
>
>
> Elaine
>
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