MODIS FIRE DATA Via NASA FIRMS

VIIRS FIRE DATA Via NASA FIRMS

MERRA-2 DATA ACCESSED Via GES DISC

Downloaded Fire data in CSV format from 2019-2025

Downloaded BC data in NetCDF format from 2019-2025

MODIS/VIIRS

MERRA-2

Filter & Clean Data (Tamil Nadu, Confidence >30%, Duplicates)

Harmonize Columns & Organize Year-wise

Convert CSV to Shapefile for GIS Mapping

Extract grids for Tamil Nadu + Buffer

Convert NetCDF to CSV/TIFF

Rescale & Prepare for Time Series Analysis