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SAFARI 2000 HISTORICAL FIRE MAPS, KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, 1992-2001

Entry ID: s2k_knp_fire_map

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Summary

Abstract: Kruger National Park (KNP) was established in 1898 to protect wildlife on nearly 2 million hectares of the South African Lowveld. The climate in this region of South Africa is subtropical, with hot summers and warm, dry winters. Summer rains fall between October and March.Savanna fires are common in the South African Lowveld during the dry season. The two primary sources of fire ignition, ...

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Description: SAFARI 2000 HISTORICAL FIRE MAPS, KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, 1992-2001

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -22.33

S: -25.53

E: 32.03

W: 30.89

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: GOVENDER, N.WOODS, D.

Dataset Title: SAFARI 2000 HISTORICAL FIRE MAPS, KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, 1992-2001

Dataset Release Date: 2004

Dataset Release Place: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Dataset Publisher: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

Data Presentation Form: Online Files

Dataset DOI: doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/756

Online Resource: http://mercury.ornl.gov/ornldaac/send/query?term2=756&term2attribut...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1992-05-11

Stop Date: 2001-03-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > AFRICA > SOUTHERN AFRICA

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SAVANNAS

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > WILDFIRES

BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > FIRE ECOLOGY > FIRE OCCURRENCE

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

ENVIRONMENT

Platform

FIELD INVESTIGATION

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

SAFARI 2000 > The Southern African Regional Science Initiative Project

CWIC > CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog

Ancillary Keywords

FIRE

EOSDIS

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC)

Data Center URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/
Dataset ID: 756

Data Center Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE Phone: (865) 574-7447 Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov Contact Address: ORNL DAAC User Services Office Oak Ridge National Laboratory City: Oak Ridge Province or State: TN Postal Code: 37831-6407 Country: USA