What is the Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) fire product?
The CMG fire products are gridded statistical summaries of fire pixel information intended for use in regional and global modeling. The products are currently generated at 0.5 degree spatial resolution for time periods of one calendar month (MOD14CMH/MYD14CMH) and eight days (MOD14C8H/MYD14C8H). Higher resolution 0.25 degree CMG fire products will eventually be produced as well. More information can be found in the MODIS Collection 4 Active Fire Product User’s Guide). Back to top Fire Pixel Locations vs. Gridded Fire Products We urge caution in using fire pixel locations in lieu of the 1-km gridded MODIS fire products (CMG fire product). The former includes no information about cloud cover or missing data and, depending on the sort of analysis that is being performed, it is sometimes possible to derive misleading (or even incorrect) results by not accounting for these other types of pixels. It is also possible to grossly misuse fire pixel locations, even for regions and time periods in
