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    • ABoVE: Ignitions, Burned Area, and Emissions of Fires in AK, YT, and NWT, 2001-2018

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This dataset provides estimates of daily burned area, carbon emissions, and uncertainty, and daily fire ignition locations for boreal fires in Alaska, U.S., and in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada. The data are at 500 m resolution for the 18-year period from 2001-2018. Burned area was retrieved from combining fire perimeter data from the Alaskan and Canadian Large Fire Databases with surface reflectance and active fire data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6. Per-pixel carbon consumption was estimated based on a statistical relationship between field estimates of pyrogenic consumption and several environmental variables. To derive the carbon consumption estimates, the approach from Alaskan Fire Emissions Database (AKFED) was updated and extended for the period 2001-2018. Fire weather variables, temperature, and the drought code complemented remotely sensed tree cover and burn severity as model predictors. Fire ignition location and timing were extracted from the daily burned area maps.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    Ignition locations and burned area for Interior Alaska in 2015. Source: Scholten et al., 2021b

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2111719486-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2021-06-22
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category ABoVE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Scholten, R.C., S. Veraverbeke, R. Jandt, E.A. Miller, and B.M. Rogers. 2021. ABoVE: Ignitions, Burned Area, and Emissions of Fires in AK, YT, and NWT, 2001-2018. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1812
    Graphic Preview Description Ignition locations and burned area for Interior Alaska in 2015. Source: Scholten et al., 2021b
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/BurnedArea_Emissions_AK_YT_NWT_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id e809708c-18c0-480c-b924-45b2d7fd3443
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1812
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -167.0 51.63 -99.98 79.26
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 52e1860e915534fd6b3d0cae48260277a4121930607f188aa0f895247157bd22
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z/2018-12-31T23:59:59Z

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