TERN Geospatial Catalogue
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
Author
- 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
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
- 250 meters - < 500 meters
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
- Description
- Australia
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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
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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
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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
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- Keywords
- GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
- Temporal Resolution
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- Keywords (dataResolution)
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/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 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
- OnLine resource
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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).
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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
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urn:uuid/5e262fd7-261f-4c5d-81e7-fff2c6d54d32
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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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
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Spatial extent
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Associated resources
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