Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2015-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2015-2018
Review article
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13 Nov 2018
Review article |  | 13 Nov 2018

Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies

Emilio Chuvieco, Joshua Lizundia-Loiola, Maria Lucrecia Pettinari, Ruben Ramo, Marc Padilla, Kevin Tansey, Florent Mouillot, Pierre Laurent, Thomas Storm, Angelika Heil, and Stephen Plummer

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We present a new global burned area product, generated from MODIS information and thermal anomalies data, providing the highest spatial resolution (approx. 250 m) global product to date. The dataset comprises the 2001–2016 time series of the MODIS archive, and includes two types of BA products: monthly full-resolution continental tiles and biweekly global grid files at a degraded resolution of 0.25 °, supplemented with several auxiliary variables useful for different applications.
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