Annual Fire frequency

land cover climate

Global time-series on the intra-annual frequency of fires

Details

This dataset provides yearly data on the global extent and prevailance of fires. It uses data from MODIS MCD64A1 product to count the number of months with observed fires at each pixel within each year.

Subdatasets

nrMonths | Number of burning months
content description
value_range 0…12

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("fireFrequency")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("fireFrequency/nrMonths")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("fireFrequency/nrMonths/1km")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Giglio, Boschetti, Roy, Humber, and Justice (2018)