- Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
- This true-color image of Madagascar was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 28, 2002. Numerous fire (red dots) were detected on the island, which is located off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.
- Sri Lanka (Wikipedia)
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest.
