0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2026-02-13T10:45:26 UK GEMINI 2.3 MODIS Sinusoidal Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area 2010-07-13 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 doi: George, C., Gerard, F., Balzter, H. (2010). Circumpolar boreal forest burnt area. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 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 Natural Environment Research Council enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner George, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact George, C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6318-2196 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gerard, F. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-5174 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Balzter, H. University of Leicester enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher unknown Natural Risk Zones theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication earth observation forest fire remote sensing climate change GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Russia Canada GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Land cover Climate and climate change Siberia Alaska Natural resource management otherRestrictions Registration is required to access this data otherRestrictions Licence terms and conditions apply otherRestrictions 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 grid English utf8 environment 2001-01-01 2011-12-31 -180 180 40 80 TIFF NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4 Download the data Get a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0e2f1043-a08f-49da-a6c5-7ffc4ad6cac4.zip Supporting documents Documents available to assist with re-use of this dataset. information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.