LBA-ECO LC-02: Satellite Fire Hotspots and Risk Factors for the Amazon MAP Region

Twelve satellite sensors from NOAA, GOES, AQUA, and TERRA platforms detected fire-indicating hot pixels across the tri-national MAP region of Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia from 2003 to 2006. Each observation includes derived vegetation type, susceptibility to fire, recent and past precipitation amounts, and a calculated fire risk value. The data were compiled by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and are accompanied by a published application study and a detailed fire risk factor methodology document.

Use Cases

• Mapping fire frequency and distribution in remote rainforest areas based on satellite hot pixel detections.
• Assessing fire risk by analyzing derived vegetation type and precipitation history for specific locations.
• Validating regional fire models using multi-year, multi-sensor satellite data compilations.
• Studying the relationship between land cover classification and fire susceptibility in a tri-national context.

Strengths

• Multi-year coverage from 2003 to 2006 provides a temporal baseline for fire activity.
• Data fusion from 8 distinct satellite sensors (NOAA-12 to -16, GOES-8/12, AQUA, TERRA) offers multiple observation sources.
• Each record is annotated with derived environmental variables like vegetation type and fire risk, not just raw detections.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, file size, and specific column names are unavailable across all sources.
• The last update date conflicts between platforms (2006 vs. 2026), creating uncertainty about data currency.
• Documentation is referenced but not directly described, potentially limiting immediate understanding of derived fields.

Provenance

Source

Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC) of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil.

Collection Method

Compiled from publicly available satellite data via the internet (http://sigma.cptec.inpe.br/queimadas/).

Time Range

2003 to 2006

Freshness

Conflicting: One source lists last updated as 2026-03-13, another as 2006-12-31.

Geography

Tri-national MAP region (Madre de Dios-Peru, Acre-Brazil, and Pando-Bolivia) in the Amazon Basin.