1997 to 2015 annual rasters provide total area burned in hectares and total carbon content in tons. The data includes monthly aggregated annual totals for all fires and separate annual totals for six specific fire types. It was produced by NASA's ESDIS organization and last updated in 2015.
Use Cases
- Model atmospheric carbon flux by correlating annual total carbon content rasters with climate variables.
- Analyze regional fire trends by comparing annual total area burned rasters across the 19-year time series.
- Assess contributions of specific fire types, like Agricultural or Peat fires, to total emissions using the six fire type-specific carbon content rasters.
- Validate fire emission models by using the monthly-derived annual total area burned and total carbon content rasters as ground truth proxies.
Strengths
- 19-year continuous time series from 1997 to 2015.
- Provides data for six distinct fire types (Agricultural, Boreal, Tropical Deforestation, Peat, Savanna, Temperate).
- Derived from monthly rasters for both area burned and carbon content, enabling temporal analysis.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with the last update in 2015 and no more recent records.
- Specific row/column counts, spatial resolution, and file sizes are unknown, complicating technical assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Earthdata via ESDIS.
- Collection Method
- Rasters generated from monthly products combining Cell Area, Burn Fraction, Dry Matter, and Fire Type Contribution calculations.
- Time Range
- 1997-2015
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global