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Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area
Burnt areas are presented with a daily date of burn at 500m resolution for the circumpolar boreal forest zone. The dataset comprises eleven tiff files, one for each year: 2001 to 2011.
The aim of this dataset is the improved understanding of spatio-temporal patterns and dynamics of boreal fire intensity and extent, the driving factors behind these variations, and the consequence for carbon fluxes for the whole boreal area.
The source data for the daily burnt area product is the 16-day MODIS Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance (N-BAR) MCD43A4 product on the standard Sinusoidal projection. The burnt areas are identified by thresholding a differencing method, with the resulting fire-scars dated using MODIS thermal anomalies (MOD14A1). The results are annual TIFF images at 500m resolution with the pixel values being the first day of burn for that year. The product was validated using temporal assemblages of ETM images randomly located throughout the whole Boreal zone and analysed on a date and per pixel basis. The result was a Kappa co-efficient of 0.54. This algorithms used to map the burnt areas were developed by members of the CEH Wallingford Earth Observation group. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-07-13
- Identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1279019062156
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
- Other citation details
- George, C., Gerard, F., Balzter, H. (2010). Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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- Land cover
- Siberia
- Alaska
- Forest
- Fire
- Earth Observation
- Remote sensing
- Natural resource management
- Climate change
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: George, C., Gerard, F., Balzter, H. (2010). Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2011-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- MODIS Sinusoidal
Distribution Information
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TIFF
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TIFF
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The source data for the daily burnt area product is the 16-day MODIS Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance (N-BAR) MCD43A4 product on the standard Sinusoidal projection. The burnt areas are identified by thresholding a differencing method, with the resulting fire-scars dated using MODIS thermal anomalies (MOD14A1). The results are annual TIFF images at 500m resolution with the pixel values being the first day of burn for that year. The product was validated using temporal assemblages of ETM images randomly located throughout the whole Boreal zone and analysed on a date and per pixel basis. The result was a Kappa co-efficient of 0.54.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2021-06-25T18:35:56
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
