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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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Date (Publication)
2010-07-13
Identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1279019062156
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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doi: / 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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George, C., Gerard, F., Balzter, H. (2010). Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
Owner
  Natural Environment Research Council
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - George, C.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - George, C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6318-2196
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Gerard, F.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-5174
Author
  University of Leicester - Balzter, H.
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Natural Risk Zones
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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
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Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2001-01-01
End date
2011-12-31
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MODIS Sinusoidal
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2010-12-08
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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.
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2025-03-21T13:35:28
Metadata standard name
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Metadata standard version
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Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
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