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Active fire detection and intensity, fast delivery (Copernicus)

Sentinel-3 SLSTR Fire Radiative Power (NRT)
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In plain English

What it measures. Detections of active fires over land and ocean, including how much heat energy each fire is releasing, which indicates fire intensity.

How it's made. Made by ESA Copernicus from the Sentinel-3 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer, processed to Level-2 fire products in near-real-time.

How & where you'd use it. Used to spot wildfires, gauge their strength, and support firefighting response and emissions estimates.

What's measured

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Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2020-08-08 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

This Collection provides Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level-2 Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products containing data on fires detected over land and ocean.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["sentinel-3-sl-2-frp-nrt"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.