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SAFARI 2000 Global Burned Area Map, 1-km, Southern Africa, 2000

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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/790
Version1
Project
Published2005-06-01
Updated2023-10-18
Usage599 downloads
Citations2 publications cited this dataset

Description

The Global Burned Area 2000 initiative (GBA2000) was launched by the Global Vegetation Mapping Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, in partnership with several other institutions, to develop reliable and quantitative information on the global magnitude and spatial distribution of biomass burning. The objective of GBA2000 was to produce a map of the areas burned globally for the year 2000, using the medium resolution satellite imagery provided by the SPOT-VEGETATION (VGT) system and to derive statistics of area burned per type of vegetation cover. A subset of the global GBA20000 map was prepared for SAFARI 2000 to map the area burned in sub-Saharan Africa during 2000 on a monthly basis using VGT imagery at 1 km spatial resolution. Burned areas were identified with a classification tree, relying only on the near-infrared channel of VGT. The data used in this work are in the S1 daily synthesis format, i.e. the data are radiometrically calibrated, precisely geo-located, and corrected for atmospheric effects.The data are binary image files of area burned, BSQ format in geographic projection. There is one file for each month of 2000 and one file for all of the year 2000. There is also a comma-delimited ASCII text file that provides geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the center of each pixel indicated as a burned area for all of 2000.

Science Keywords

  • HUMAN DIMENSIONS
  • ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
  • BIOMASS BURNING
  • BIOSPHERE
  • VEGETATION
  • VEGETATION COVER
  • BIOSPHERE
  • ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
  • FIRE ECOLOGY
  • FIRE OCCURRENCE
  • HUMAN DIMENSIONS
  • NATURAL HAZARDS
  • WILDFIRES

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Joint Research Centre, European Comission. 2005. SAFARI 2000 Global Burned Area Map, 1-km, Southern Africa, 2000. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/790

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Dataset has 5 companion files.

  • gba2000_country_month_totals.csv
  • gba2000_country_month.csv
  • spot_veg_burned_readme.pdf
  • africa_gba2000-total_csv.zip
  • gba2000_country_vegetation_2000.csv