Global Burnt Area 2000 Statistics

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Gregoire, Jean-Marie, and Tansey, Kevin

Publication_Date: 2001

Title: Global Burnt Area 2000 Statistics

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: maps data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy

Publisher: European Commission

Online_Linkage:

http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/earlywarning/preview/ims/gba/

Description:

Abstract:

According to a recent study from Hao and Liu [1994], the African continent, where about two-thirds of the biomass burning is due to savanna fires, contributes to 46 % of the total amount of biomass burnt in the tropics. Although many local to regional studies were carried out during the last few years to characterize vegetation fire activity and its impact on environmental quality and climate, large uncertainties remain at continental level for Africa, in both quantitative and spatio-temporal terms. There is therefore an increased request by the scientific community for a systematic documentation on continental biomass burning, especially by scientists involved in fire emission, land cover changes and tropospheric chemistry studies, in both experimental and modelling fields.

Purpose:

In the context of the increased request by the scientific community for systematic documentation on continental biomass burning, the Global Burnt Area 2000 initiative (GBA2000) was launched by the GVM Unit of the JRC, in partnership with 6 other institutions, with the specific objective being to produce a map of the areas burnt globally for the year 2000, using the medium resolution (1 km) satellite imagery provided by the SPOT-Vegetation system and to derive statistics of area burnt per type of vegetation cover. The datasets are comprised of non-accumulative, monthly products and an annual product (i.e. burnt area in the year 2000).

Supplemental_Information: (previous geoform was 'map, diagram, tables')

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates_Times:

Beginning_Date: 20000101

Ending_Date: 20001231

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent: Africa

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -19

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 54

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -38

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: burnt area

Theme_Keyword: vegetation

Theme_Keyword: burning

Theme_Keyword: protected areas

Theme_Keyword: vegetation cover

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Place_Keyword: Africa

Access_Constraints:

End-users external to GVM can have access to the data and make use of it in their own field of research and/or application only if they fulfill the use- constraints listed below.

Use_Constraints:

Use of the GBA-2000 datasets for download purposes is provided freely in exchange of the following strict rules: The user do not obtain title to the intellectual property of the data held in this application, nor any copyright or propriety rights to its content. The users are not allowed to transfer, sublicense, rent, lease or sell the data therein. As the data provided are the intellectual property of the organizations which supplied the information, the original source of the data must be fully acknowledged. Please refer to the respective organizations for further inquiries regarding copyright and user limitations (see sources). Under no circumstances will the Joint Research Centre be liable for any damages resulting from use of the "Global Burned Area 2000 data sets" provided on-line.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jean-Paul Malingreau

Contact_Organization: Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Vegetation Monitoring Unit

T.P. 440

City: Ispra (VA)

State_or_Province: unknown

Postal_Code: I-21020

Country: Italy

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 39 332 789410

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 39 332 789073

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jean-paul.malingreau@jrc.it

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Gregoire J-M., K. Tansey, I. Marengo, D. Stroppiana, and S. Fritz

Publication_Date: 200201

Title:

The Global Burnt Area 2000 Initiative: GBA-2000. Mapping the areas burnt globally during the year 2000.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Publications of the European Commission, No. 1.01.117,

Issue_Identification: No. 1.01.117

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Ispra, Italy

Publisher: Joint Research Centre

Other_Citation_Details: p. 40

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Gregoire J-M, K. Tansey and J.M.N. Silva

Publication_Date: unknown

Title:

The GBA2000 initiative: Developing a global burned area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Int. J. Remote Sensing

Issue_Identification: 2002

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Marengo, I., J-M. Grgoire, K. Tansey, and P. Peduzzi

Publication_Date: 200204

Title: Global Burnt Area 2000: Analysis module

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Series_Information:

Series_Name: JRC Technical Note

Issue_Identification: No. I.02.39

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Ispra, Italy

Publisher: Joint Research Centre

Other_Citation_Details: p. 12

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Tansey, K.

Publication_Date: 200204

Title: Implementation of regional burnt area algorithms for GBA2000

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: unknown

Publisher: European Commission

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

J.M.N. Silva, J.M.C. Pereira, A. I.Cabral, A.C.L.S.M.J.P. Vasconcelos, B. Mota, and J-M. Grgoire

Publication_Date: 2002

Title: The area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article

Series_Information:

Series_Name: SAFARI 2000 Special Issue, submitted

Issue_Identification: Journal of Geophysical Research

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

J.M.N. Silva, A.M.O. Sousa, J.M. C. Pereira, K. Tansey and J-M Grgoire

Publication_Date: 2002

Title: A contribution for a global burned area map.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Coimbra, Portugal

Publisher: International Conference on Forest Fire Research

Other_Citation_Details: November 18-23rd submitted

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Brivio P.A., M. Maggi, E. Binaghi, I. Gallo

Publication_Date: 2002

Title:

Mapping burned surfaces in Sub-Saharan Africa based on multi-temporal neural classification

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Int. J. Of Remote Sensing

Issue_Identification: unknown

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Brivio P.A., M. Maggi, E. Binaghi, I. Gallo and J.M. Grgoire

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

Exploiting spatial and temporal information for extracting burned areas from time series of SPOT-VGT Data.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book chapter

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: L. Bruzzone and P. Smits, Eds.

Publication_Date: 2001

Title: Analysis of MultiTemporal Remote Sensing Images

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Singapore

Publisher: World Scientific

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Brivio P.A., E. Binaghi, I. Gallo and M. Maggi

Publication_Date: 2002

Title:

Contextual multitemporal classification of burned areas in coarse resolution imagery

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Binaghi E., P.A. Brivio and S.B. Serpico, Eds.

Publication_Date: 2002

Title: Geospatial Pattern Recognition

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Trivandrum, India

Publisher: Transworld Research Network

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Boschetti L., S. Flasse, A. Jacques de Dixmude and S. Trigg

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

A multitemporal change-detection algorithm for the monitoring of burnt areas with SPOT-Vegetation data

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Conference proceedings

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: L. Bruzzone and P. Smith (Eds.)

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

First International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, Trento, Italy, 13-14 September 2001

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Singapore

Publisher: World Scientific

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Stroppiana D., K. Tansey, J-M Grgoire, and J.M.C. Pereira

Publication_Date: 2002

Title:

An algorithm for mapping burnt areas in Australia using SPOT-VEGETATION data

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Series_Information:

Series_Name: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Issue_Identification: February 2002

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: R.H. Fraser, R. Fernandes, and R. Latifovic

Publication_Date: 2002

Title:

Multi-temporal mapping of burned forest over Canada using satellite-based change metrics,

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: unknown

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: unknown

Publisher: Geocarto International

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Achard F., Eva H. And P. Mayaux

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

Tropical forest mapping from coarse spatial resolution satellite data: production and accuracy assessment issues

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Journal article

Series_Information:

Series_Name: vol. 22, no. 14, 2741-2762

Issue_Identification: Int. J. Remote Sensing

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Stibig H.J., J.P. Malingreau, and R. Beuchle

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

New possibilities of regional assessment of tropical forest cover in insular Southeast Asia using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite image mosaics

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Journal article

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Int. J. Remote Sensing

Issue_Identification: 2001, vol. 22, no. 4, 503-505

Other_Citation_Details: pp. 503-505

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The datasets in geographic projection were projected into a cylindrical equal area projection with a pixel spacing of 1000 m. Most estimates of burnt areas are displayed in units of ha x 103.

Logical_Consistency_Report: unknown

Completeness_Report: unknown

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Latitude resolution - 5 km

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Longitude resolution - 5 km

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The datasets in geographic projection were projected into a cylindrical equal area projection with a pixel spacing of 1000 meters. Most estimates of burnt areas are displayed in units of ha x 103.

Process_Date: Unknown

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: African burnt area, biomass burning, savannah fires.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: JRC

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Secretariat

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: unknown

Address:

Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Institute for Environment and Sustainability Joint Research Centre (European Commission) T.P.

City: Ispra (VA)

State_or_Province: unknown

Postal_Code: 440 1-21020

Country: Italy

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +39-0332-789298

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +39-0332-789073

Distribution_Liability:

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Joint Research Center of the European Union, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a Joint Research Center server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The Joint Research Center shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20050923

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Cheryl Solomon

Contact_Organization: Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

Contact_Position: Metadata specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 10210 Greenbelt Road, Suite 500

City: Lanham

State_or_Province: Maryland

Postal_Code: 20706

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 867-2080

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-867-2149

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: solomon@gcmd.nasa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name:

FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999