The fraction of burnable area is the fraction of the cell that corresponds to vegetated land covers that could burn. The land cover classes are those from C3S land cover map v2.1.1 of 2018
The fraction of the total burnable area in the cell (fraction_of_burnable_area variable of this file) that was observed during the time interval, and was not marked as unsuitable/not observable. The latter refers to the area where it was not possible to obtain observational burned area information for the whole time interval because of the lack of input data (non-existing data for that location and period).
ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (Fire_cci): Small Fire Database (SFD) Burned Area grid product for Sub-Saharan Africa, version 2.0
source
MSI L1C, VIIRS FIRMS (VNP14IMGTML), C3S land cover map v2.1.1 of 2018
history
Created on 2021-06-17 20:39:32
references
See https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/fire/
product_version
2-0
comment
These data were produced as part of the ESA CCI programme.
project
ESA Fire_cci
publication_date
2021-08-16T10:49:16
ecv
FIRE
institute
University of Alcala
processing_level
L4
product_string
MSI
data_type
BA
sensor_id
MSI-(Sentinel-2)
platform_id
Sentinel-2A
abstract
The ESA Fire Disturbance Climate Change Initiative (Fire_cci) project has produced maps of global burned area developed from satellite observations. The Small Fire Database (SFD) pixel products have been obtained by combining spectral information from Sentinel-2 MSI data and thermal information from VIIRS VNP14IMGML active fire products. This gridded dataset has been derived from the Small Fire Database (SFD) Burned Area pixel product for Sub-Saharan Africa, v2.0 (also available), which covers Sub-Saharan Africa for the year 2019, by summarising its burned area information into a regular grid covering the Earth at 0.05 x 0.05 degrees resolution and at monthly temporal resolution.