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    • LBA-ECO LC-39 MODIS Active Fire and Frequency Data for South America: 2000-2007

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This data set provides active fire locations and estimates of annual fire frequencies for South America from 2000-2007. Data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors aboard the Terra (2000-2007) and Aqua (2003-2007) satellite platforms were analyzed to determine spatial and temporal patterns in satellite fire detections. The analysis considered a high-confidence subset of all MODIS fire detections to reduce the influence of false fire detections over small forest clearings in Amazonia (Schroeder et al., 2008). The number of unique days on which the active fire detections were recorded within a 1 km radius was estimated from the subset of active fire detections and the ArcGIS neighborhood variety algorithm. There are 14 data files with this data set: 7 GeoTIFF (.tif) files of fire frequency at MODIS 250 m resolution, where each grid cell value represents the number of days in that year on which active fires were detected, and 7 shape files of active fire locations for the years 2001-2007.

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    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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    Metadata Created Date October 18, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date October 18, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2781578636-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-10-03
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-10-12
    Category LBA-ECO, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Morton, D.C., R.S. Defries, J.T. Randerson, L. Giglio, W. Schroeder, and G.R. van der Werf. 2013. LBA-ECO LC-39 MODIS Active Fire and Frequency Data for South America: 2000-2007. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1186
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1186
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -81.29 -34.86 -53.31 11.75
    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash 2e9bea131c5bdbf494a2f4248d5d70368b33cae68d3f827ad6171659098e791b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z/2007-12-31T23:59:59Z

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