You will import the Global_24h.csv file to the PostGIS database from NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
You can copy the file from the dataset directory of the book for this chapter.
This file represents the active hotspots in the world detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites in the last 24 hours. For each row, there are the coordinates of the hotspot (latitude, longitude) in decimal degrees (in the WGS 84 spatial reference system, SRID = 4326), and a series of useful fields such as the acquisition date, acquisition time, and satellite type, just to name a few.
You will import only the active fire data scanned by the satellite type marked as T (Terra MODIS), ...
