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    • Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The Global Fire Atlas is a global dataset that tracks the day-to-day dynamics of individual fires to determine the timing and location of ignitions, fire size, duration, daily expansion, fire line length, speed, and direction of spread. These individual fire characteristics were derived based on the Global Fire Atlas algorithm and estimated day of burn information at 500-m resolution from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 MCD64A1 burned area product. The algorithm identified 13.3 million individual fires (>=21 ha or 0.21 km2; the size of one MODIS pixel) over the 2003-2016 study period.

    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

    Average fire duration (upper) and daily fire expansion (lower) displayed cumulatively for the 14 year study period, 2003-2016. From Andela et al., 2018.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2389158955-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2019-02-14
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category CMS, 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 Andela, N., D.C. Morton, L. Giglio, and J.T. Randerson. 2019. Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1642
    Graphic Preview Description Average fire duration (upper) and daily fire expansion (lower) displayed cumulatively for the 14 year study period, 2003-2016. From Andela et al., 2018.
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/CMS/guides/CMS_Global_Fire_Atlas_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id 4453b43c-509a-4b75-af39-2a64376875bf
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1642
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 008df5faa614af288eec6f0ab5eaf36a854553bb8941b00d55e2749118458dda
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z/2016-12-31T23:59:59Z

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