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Burnt Area and Approximate Day of Burn - MODIS, Australian algorithm, Australian coverage

This product provides locations of areas affected by fire including the approximate day of burning. Inputs are daily day time observations from MODIS sensors on Terra and Aqua. Observations are atmospherically corrected and the resulting time series is investigated for sudden changes in reflectance, persistent over multiple days. Variations in observation and illumination geometry are taken into account through application of a kernel driven Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) model.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2018-09-30
Date (Publication)
2022-02-21
Date (Revision)
2020-04-21
Edition
1.0.0

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
AU
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Maitec - Maier, Stefan ()
Ellengowan Dr
Casuarina
NT
815
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
The product consists of monthly rasters of the approximate julian day of burning within the month. Seasonality and bioregional effects are taken into account in the analysis of daily reflectance changes in the satellite data (Maier, 2010). The data can be used to estimate both area of burns (contiguous burn pixels) and time of burns (approximate day a pixel burns). Annual and all-data composites of the monthly files are also provided.
Status
Completed

Author

Maitec - Maier, Stefan ()
Ellengowan Dr
Casuarina
NT
815
Australia

Spatial resolution

Level of detail
250 meters - < 500 meters
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover

Extent

Description
Australia
N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
2002-08-01 2017-02-28
Title
Maier, S.W. (2010) Changes in surface reflectance from wildfires on the Australian continent measured by MODIS. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31, 3161-3176.
Website
Maier, S.W. (2010) Changes in surface reflectance from wildfires on the Australian continent measured by MODIS. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31, 3161-3176.

Related documentation

Title
Maier, S.W. and Russell-Smith, J. (2012) Measuring and Monitoring of Contemporary Fire Regimes in Australia using Satellite Remote Sensing. In: Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World. CSIRO Publishing
Website
Maier, S.W. and Russell-Smith, J. (2012) Measuring and Monitoring of Contemporary Fire Regimes in Australia using Satellite Remote Sensing. In: Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World. CSIRO Publishing

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Aqua
  • Terra
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • MODIS (Aqua)
  • MODIS (Terra)
Keywords
  • fire events
  • Day
GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
  • FIRE DYNAMICS
  • FIRE OCCURRENCE
  • FIRE HISTORY
  • BURNED AREA
Temporal Resolution
  • Daily - < Weekly
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Keywords (dataResolution)
  • 250 meters - < 500 meters

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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File description
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File type
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Linkage
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Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br/>Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
Other constraints
Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified
Supplemental Information
Pixel value indicates the number of days since reference date 1970-01-01
Supplemental Information
Datasets are monthly, annual and composited from 2002.

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097
OnLine resource
NetCDF data files

NetCDF data files

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other
This product is validated to Stage 2. Product accuracy is estimated over a significant set of locations and time periods by comparison with reference in situ or other suitable reference data. Spatial and temporal consistency of the product and with similar products has been evaluated over representative locations and time periods (Maier, 2010).

Report

Result

Statement
Northern Australia: overall accuracy 95.2%, commission error 3.7%, omission error 6.2%. Rainfall events in sparsely vegetated areas cause commission errors. Low intensity, patchy understorey fires under dense canopies are not detected. Small fires affecting a small fraction of a sensor pixel (250 m x 250 m) are not detected.

Resource lineage

Statement
The algorithm uses daily MODIS Terra and Aqua day time observations. Observations are atmospherically corrected and the resulting time series is investigated for sudden changes in reflectance, persistent over multiple days. Variations in observation and illumination geometry are taken into account through application of a kernel driven BRDF model.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/WGS84 (EPSG:4326)

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/5e262fd7-261f-4c5d-81e7-fff2c6d54d32

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5e262fd7-261f-4c5d-81e7-fff2c6d54d32

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2014-06-27T11:07:36

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
Edition
1

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
Edition
1.0

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
Edition
1.0
Title
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
Date (published)
2021
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
BURNED AREA FIRE DYNAMICS FIRE HISTORY FIRE OCCURRENCE

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