Burned Area - Last year of observed fire

Parameter 

Burned Area - Last year of observed fire

Represented classes

Detected fires on a yearly basis 2000 – 2020 showed in the burned year colour 

Description 

This layers shows the areas where fire was detected during the period 2000-2020. The pixel shows the last year in which fire was detected. The Terra and Aqua combined MCD64A1 Version 6 Burned Area data product is a monthly, global gridded 500m product containing per-pixel burned-area and quality information. 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – MODIS

MCD64A1: MODIS/Terra and Aqua Burned Area Monthly L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid V006 

Description 

The Terra and Aqua combined MCD64A1 Version 6 Burned Area data product is a monthly, global gridded 500 m product containing per-pixel burned-area and quality information. The MCD64A1 burned-area mapping approach employs 500 m MODIS Surface Reflectance imagery coupled with 1 km MODIS active fire observations. The algorithm uses a burn sensitive vegetation index (VI) to create dynamic thresholds that are applied to the composite data. The VI is derived from MODIS shortwave infrared atmospherically corrected surface reflectance bands 5 and 7 with a measure of temporal texture. The algorithm identifies the date of burn for the 500m grid cells within each individual MODIS tile. The date is encoded in a single data layer as the ordinal day of the calendar year on which the burn occurred, with values assigned to unburned land pixels and additional special values reserved for missing data and water grid cells. 

Spatial resolution 

Pixel size:

500 x 500 m

Temporal resolution

Global time series available from 2000 to 2020

High temporal resolution: Daily revisit time, graph shows less-cloudy image during 16/8 days