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SAFARI 2000 ASTER AND MODIS FIRE DATA COMPARISON, DRY SEASON 2001

Entry ID: s2k_aster_modis

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Summary

Abstract: These data relate to a paper (Morisette et al., 2005) that describes the use of high spatial resolution ASTER data to determine the accuracy of the moderate resolution MODIS active fire product. Our main objective was to develop a methodology to use ASTER data for quantitative evaluation of the MODIS active fire product and to apply it to fires in Southern Africa during the 2001 burning season. We ...

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Description: SAFARI 2000 STEM AND CANOPY CHARACTERIZATION, KALAHARI TRANSECT, 1995-2000

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -14.42

S: -27.75

E: 25.5

W: 19.17

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: CAYLOR, K.K.

Dataset Title: SAFARI 2000 STEM AND CANOPY CHARACTERIZATION, KALAHARI TRANSECT, 1995-2000

Dataset Release Date: 2005

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/775

Online Resource: http://mercury.ornl.gov/ornldaac/send/query?term2=775&term2attribut...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1995-02-01

Stop Date: 2000-03-16

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > AFRICA > SOUTHERN AFRICA > SOUTH AFRICA

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

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

EOSDIS

CANOPY

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: 775

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