Can I configure the Living Atlas's VIIRS Fire Activity layer to only show to a specific country?

Question

I was looking for a global active fire layer and I found the Satellite (VIIRS) Thermal Hotspot and Fire Activity. Now when looking at its attribute table it doesn't appear to have a column for countries.

So, I'm asking does anyone know how to make the layer only show active fires in a specific country and hide everything else?

AndrewCastilloTBSL · Answer

Thanks, that's awesome.

AndrewCastilloTBSL · Answer

Thank you, I performed your instructions, and I was able to visually focus it on my specific country.

PDodd · Answer

To improve performance when panning or zooming outside of your Area-Of-Interest, Thailand in this case, you can add a filter to the VIIRS layer to restrict the number of features returned. The following will only return rows for the general extent of Thailand.

The Longitude and Latitude fields are indexed, so the query performance is good. Avoid using the "BETWEEN" clause though, as this is not cache-able and therefor will not stand up to viral traffic.