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krawler-firms ​

A Krawler based service to download data from the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

Overview ​

The krawler-firms job allows to scrape data from the FIRMS using the following url: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/active_fire/suomi-npp-viirs-c2/csv/SUOMI_VIIRS_C2_Global_7d.csv. The downloaded data are stored within a MongoDB database:

  • the firms collection stores the Thermal Hotspots and Fire Activity data

All records are stored in GeoJson format.

The job is executed according a specific cron expression. By default, every hour.

Configuration ​

VariableDescription
DB_URLThe mongoDB database URL. The default value is mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/kano
DEBUGEnables debug output. Set it to krawler* to enable full output. By default it is undefined.