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Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016

Creator: ORNL_CLOUD
Keywords: Burned Area,Fire Dynamics,Fire Occurrence

CMS_Global_Fire_Atlas_1642

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1642

Citation

Center/Project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

multiple

Dataset Size

14.102 GB

Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location

GLOBAL

Temporal Extent

2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

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Description

The Global Fire Atlas is a global dataset that tracks the day-to-day dynamics of individual fires to determine the timing and location of ignitions, fire size, duration, daily expansion, fire line length, speed, and direction of spread. These individual fire characteristics were derived based on the Global Fire Atlas algorithm and estimated day of burn information at 500-m resolution from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 MCD64A1 burned area product. The algorithm identified 13.3 million individual fires (>=21 ha or 0.21 km2; the size of one MODIS pixel) over the 2003-2016 study period.

Product Summary

Platforms

COMPUTERS ,

Terra ,

Aqua

Instruments

Computer ,

MODIS

Projects

CMS

Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location

GLOBAL

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31

Data Partner

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)

Concept ID

C2389158955-ORNL_CLOUD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

182

Processing Level

Published

2019-02-14

Updated

2019-02-14

Science Keywords

Burned Area ,

Fire Dynamics ,

Fire Occurrence

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Andela, N., Morton, D. C., Giglio, L., & Randerson, J. T. (2019). Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1642 Date Accessed: 2026-06-03

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

A pdf of the guide document

Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
Assessing expected economic losses from wildfires in eucalypt plantations of western Brazil	2021	Galizia, Luiz Felipe, Alcasena, Fermin, Prata, Gabriel, Rodrigues, Marcos	Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Evaluating landscape-scale wildfire exposure in northwestern Iran	2020	Jahdi, Roghayeh, Salis, Michele, Alcasena, Fermin J., Arabi, Mahdi, Arca, Bachisio, Duce, Pierpaolo	Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
System for building air patrol routes for fire-prone areas of vegetation	2020	Glagolev, Vladimir Glagolev A., Zubareva, Anna M.	Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Trends in global dependency on the Indonesian palm oil and resultant environmental impacts	2020	Shigetomi, Yosuke, Ishimura, Yuichi, Yamamoto, Yuki	Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction	2019	Andela, Niels, Morton, Douglas C., Giglio, Louis, Paugam, Ronan, Chen, Yang, Hantson, Stijn, van der Werf, Guido R., Randerson, James T.	Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence