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

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 BRDF model.
 
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Maier, Stefan (Maitec). .

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Date ( Creation )
2018-09-30T00:00:00
Date ( Publication )
2020-06-17T00:00:00
Date ( Revision )
2020-04-21T00:00:00
Edition
2.11 
Citation identifier
http://dx.doi.org / doi: 10.25901/5ec7b7ebd5ad0

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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  

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Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Description
Australia 
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Time period
2002-08-012017-02-28 
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed  
  • MODIS ,
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  • Aqua
  • FIRE SCAR DATE ,
  • Day ,
  • MODIS ,
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  • Terra
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
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence 
Alternate title
CC-BY 
Edition
4.0 
Website

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License  
Use constraints
License  
Title
Australian Government Security Classification System 
Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00  
Website

Classification
Unclassified  
Handling description
OFFICIAL (Australian Government Security Classification System) 
Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  
Supplemental Information
Pixel value indicates the number of days since reference date 1970-01-01. Datasets are monthly, annual and composited from 2002. 
Distribution format
  • NetCDF

OnLine resource

NetCDF data files from THREDDS

OnLine resource
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.

OnLine resource
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

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Standalone quality report details
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). 
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 (250mx250m) are not detected. 

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

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Date info ( Creation )
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Date info ( Revision )
2020-06-24T01:44:16
Title
ISO 19115.1:2015 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals 
Edition
1.0 
Title
ISO 19115-3:2016 
Edition
1.0 

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