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    • ABoVE: Ignitions of ABoVE-FED Fires in Alaska and Canada

    Metadata Updated: June 25, 2024

    This dataset provides daily fire ignition locations and timing for boreal fires in Alaska, U.S., and Canada between 2001 and 2019. The fire ignition locations and timing are extracted from the ABoVE Fire Emission Database; however, the temperate prairies of Canada, the Atlantic Highlands, and Mixed Wood Plains were not included. Fires were detected from Landsat differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR) and the daily MODIS burned area and active fire products. Detections by dNBR were limited to fire perimeters from national fire databases. Fire ignition locations were retrieved using a local minimum within the fire perimeters. However, when fire locations were confounded due to simultaneous active fire detections, the fire ignition location was set as the centroid of these pixels. A spatial uncertainty equaling the standard deviation of the pixels' coordinates and the nominal nadir of 1000 m was applied to the fire ignition location. The temporal resolution of the ignition timing is within one day. Data is provided in comma separated values (CSV) and shapefile formats.

    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 June 25, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date June 25, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Fire ignition locations across Canada and Alaska, U.S., for 2001 - 2019. For Canada, temperate prairies, the Atlantic Highlands, and Mixed Wood Plains were not included.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 25, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date June 25, 2024
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C3103956593-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2024-06-14
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2024-06-17
    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 Hessilt, T.D., B.M. Rogers, R.C. Scholten, S. Potter, T.A.J. Janssen, and S. Veraverbeke. 2023. ABoVE: Ignitions of ABoVE-FED Fires in Alaska and Canada. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2316
    Graphic Preview Description Fire ignition locations across Canada and Alaska, U.S., for 2001 - 2019. For Canada, temperate prairies, the Atlantic Highlands, and Mixed Wood Plains were not included.
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Fire_Ignitions_Locations_AK_CA_Fig1.jpg
    Harvest Object Id ab5c3350-66e1-4ce4-9d74-4a718991a293
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2316
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -166.19 44.91 -52.89 73.01
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 740aeb7aa36c4feb21219b810de2920e380e39d6c48d7618e74ff8eb020bf705
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z/2019-12-31T23:59:59Z

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