Data

Burned Area Products

As part of the Fire_cci project, several algorithms have been or are being tested in different parts of the world, involving the use of medium to high resolution satellite images, including MERIS, MODIS, Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Sentinel-3 and AVHRR data.

The following burned area products have been produced:

Product Coverage Time series input data (sensor) Spatial Resolution Publication Publication DOI
Surface reflectance Active fires Pixel Grid
FireCCIS311 Global 2019-2022 Sentinel-3 SYN (based on OLCI and SLSTR) v1.1
VIIRS 300m 0.25 deg Lizundia-Loiola, J., Franquesa, M., Khairoun, A., Chuvieco, E. (2022) Global burned area mapping from Sentinel-3 Synergy and VIIRS active fires. Remote Sensing of Environment 282, 113298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113298
FireCCI51
Global 2001-2020 MODIS MODIS 250 m 0.25 deg Lizundia-Loiola, J., et al. (2020) A spatio-temporal active-fire clustering approach for global burned area mapping at 250 m from MODIS data. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111493
FireCCILT11
Global 1982-2018 (minus 1994) AVHRR LTDR - 0.05 deg 0.25 deg Otón, G., et al. (2021) Development of a consistent global long-term burned area product (1982–2018) based on AVHRR-LTDR data. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102473
FireCCISFD20
Sub-Saharan Africa 2019 Sentinel-2 A&B MSI VIIRS 20 m 0.05 deg Chuvieco, E., et al. (2022) Building a small fire database for Sub-Saharan Africa from Sentinel-2 high-resolution images. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157139
FireCCISFD11 Sub-Saharan Africa 2016 Sentinel-2 A MSI MODIS 20 m 0.25 deg Roteta, E., et al. (2019) Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.011
FireCCIS1SA10 (beta product) Amazon basin 2017 Sentinel-1 SAR - 40 m - Belenguer-Plomer, M.A., et al. (2019) Burned area detection and mapping using Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficient and thermal anomalies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111345
FireCCI Special study case Indonesia
Indonesia 2015-2016 Sentinel-1 SAR - 10 m - Lohberger, S. et al. (2018) Spatial evaluation of Indonesia's 2015 fire-affected area and estimated carbon emissions using Sentinel-1. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13841
FireCCI50 (deprecated) Global 2001-2016 MODIS MODIS 250 m 0.25 deg Chuvieco, E., et al. (2018) Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2015-2018
FireCCIS310 (deprecated) Global 2019 Sentinel-3 SYN (based on OLCI and SLSTR) VIIRS 300 m 0.25 deg Lizundia-Loiola, J., Franquesa, M., Khairoun, A., Chuvieco, E. (2022) Global burned area mapping from Sentinel-3 Synergy and VIIRS active fires. Remote Sensing of Environment 282, 113298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113298
FireCCI41 (deprecated) Global 2005-2011 MERIS MODIS 300 m 0.25 deg Chuvieco, E., et al. (2016) A new global burned area product for climate assessment of fire impacts. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12440
FireCCI31 (deprecated) Global 2006-2008 MERIS MODIS 300 m 0.5 deg Alonso-Canas, I., Chuvieco, E. (2015) Global Burned Area Mapping from ENVISAT-MERIS data. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.011
FireCCILT10 (deprecated) Global 1982-2017 (minus1994) AVHRR LTDR - - 0.25 deg Otón, G., et al. (2019) Global detection of long-term (1982-2017) burned area with AVHRR-LTDR data. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11182079

Ancillary Datasets

BARD: Burned Area Reference Database: global and regional reference fire perimeters used for the validation of burned area products