BGS Hosted Metadata
Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area
Burnt areas are presented with a daily date of burn at 500m resolution for the circumpolar boreal forest zone. The dataset comprises eleven tiff files, one for each year: 2001 to 2011. The aim of this dataset is the improved understanding of spatio-temporal patterns and dynamics of boreal fire intensity and extent, the driving factors behind these variations, and the consequence for carbon fluxes for the whole boreal area. The source data for the daily burnt area product is the 16-day MODIS Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance (N-BAR) MCD43A4 product on the standard Sinusoidal projection. The burnt areas are identified by thresholding a differencing method, with the resulting fire-scars dated using MODIS thermal anomalies (MOD14A1). The results are annual TIFF images at 500m resolution with the pixel values being the first day of burn for that year. The product was validated using temporal assemblages of ETM images randomly located throughout the whole Boreal zone and analysed on a date and per pixel basis. The result was a Kappa co-efficient of 0.54. This algorithms used to map the burnt areas were developed by members of the CEH Wallingford Earth Observation group. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-07-13
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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George, C., Gerard, F., Balzter, H. (2010). Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural Environment Research Council Owner UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology George, C.
Point of contact Centre for Ecology & Hydrology George, C. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Gerard, F. Author University of Leicester Balzter, H.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Natural Risk Zones
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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GeoNames
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- Land cover
- Climate and climate change
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Siberia
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Alaska
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Natural resource management
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- Registration is required to access this data
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: George, C., Gerard, F., Balzter, H. (2010). Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2011-12-31
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- Reference system identifier
- MODIS Sinusoidal
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Name Version TIFF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4.zip Supporting documents
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dataset
Conformance result
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The source data for the daily burnt area product is the 16-day MODIS Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance (N-BAR) MCD43A4 product on the standard Sinusoidal projection. The burnt areas are identified by thresholding a differencing method, with the resulting fire-scars dated using MODIS thermal anomalies (MOD14A1). The results are annual TIFF images at 500m resolution with the pixel values being the first day of burn for that year. The product was validated using temporal assemblages of ETM images randomly located throughout the whole Boreal zone and analysed on a date and per pixel basis. The result was a Kappa co-efficient of 0.54.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-13T10:45:26
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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