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 CCI Land Cover S2 prototype land cover 20m map of Africa 2016, http://2016africalandcover20m.esrin.esa.int/
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 lack of input data (non-existing data for that location and period).
Burned area by land cover classes; land cover classes are from CCI Land Cover S2 prototype land cover 20m map of Africa 2016, http://2016africalandcover20m.esrin.esa.int/
ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (Fire_cci): Small Fire Database (SFD) Burned Area grid product for Sub-Saharan Africa, version 1.1
source
MSI L1C, MODIS MCD14ML Collection 6, ESA CCI S2 prototype land cover 20m map of Africa 2016
history
Created on 2018-12-05 09:50:33
references
See www.esa-fire-cci.org
product_version
v1-1
comment
These data were produced as part of the ESA Fire_cci programme.
project
Climate Change Initiative - European Space Agency
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 MODIS MOD14MD Collection 6 active fire products. This gridded dataset has been derived from the Small Fire Database (SFD) Burned Area pixel product for Sub-Saharan Africa, v1.1 (also available), which covers Sub-Saharan Africa for the year 2016, by summarising its burned area information into a regular grid covering the Earth at 0.25 x 0.25 degrees resolution and at monthly temporal resolution.
