Global estimation of burned area using MODIS active fire observations
Goddard Space Flight Center · Science Systems and Applications (United States) · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract. We present a method for estimating monthly burned area globally at 1° spatial resolution using Terra MODIS data and ancillary vegetation cover information. Using regression trees constructed for 14 different global regions, MODIS active fire observations were calibrated to burned area estimates derived from 500-m MODIS imagery based on the assumption that burned area is proportional to counts of fire pixels. Unlike earlier methods, we allow the constant of proportionality to vary as a function of tree and herbaceous vegetation cover, and the mean size of monthly cumulative fire-pixel clusters. In areas undergoing active deforestation, we implemented a subsequent correction based on tree cover…
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- Boreal
- Environmental science
- Cloud cover
- Vegetation (pathology)
- Taiga
- Temperate climate
- Physical geography
- Climatology
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