MODIS Daily Fire Detection for Amazon Basin 2003-2005

Spatial aggregates of MODIS/Terra satellite thermal anomaly and fire detection data for the Amazon Basin region. The University of New Hampshire's EOS-WEBSTER system created this product by aggregating and reprojecting the standard MOD14A1 daily L3 global 1km tiles. Data covers a two-year period from January 1, 2003, to January 1, 2005.

Use Cases

• Analyze the daily 8-day time series of fire detection layers to track fire occurrence and spread patterns across the Amazon Basin.
• Use the algorithm QA layer to assess confidence levels and filter out low-confidence fire pixels in the thermal anomaly data.
• Map pixels back to original input tiles using the EOS-WEBSTER look-up code layer for provenance tracking and multi-tile analysis.
• Study diurnal fire detection from Terra MODIS observations (10:30 am and 10:30 pm) captured in the consecutive daily data bands.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated from the standard MOD14A1 product, a well-documented NASA Earth science data record.
• Includes an additional look-up code layer for tracing aggregated pixels to original source tiles.
• Reprojected to a standard Geographic projection with 30 arc-second pixel resolution for easier analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset temporal coverage is limited to a specific two-year window (2003-2005).
• Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable for assessing volume.
• Input data uses Version-4 products, which may be superseded by newer algorithm versions.

Provenance

Source

NASA MODIS/Terra MOD14A1 Daily Fire product, aggregated by the University of New Hampshire's EOS-WEBSTER system.

Collection Method

Aggregation and reprojection of multiple MOD14A1 daily tiles from Integerized Sinusoidal to Geographic projection.

Time Range

2003-01-01 to 2005-01-01

Freshness

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Geography

Amazon Basin/Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment (LBA) region.