Description
The Global Fire Atlas is a global dataset that tracks the day-to-day dynamics of individual fires to determine the timing and location of ignitions, fire size, duration, daily expansion, fire line length, speed, and direction of spread. These individual fire characteristics were derived based on the Global Fire Atlas algorithm and estimated day of burn information at 500-m resolution from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 MCD64A1 burned area product. The algorithm identified 13.3 million individual fires (>=21 ha or 0.21 km2; the size of one MODIS pixel) over the 2003-2016 study period.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Average fire duration (upper) and daily fire expansion (lower) displayed cumulatively for the 14 year study period, 2003-2016. From Andela et al., 2018. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | A pdf of the guide document | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Use Web Coverage Service (WCS) to download the dataset's data | HTML | Web Coverage Service for this collection. | Open resource |