GBA 2000 Statistics

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Gregoire, Jean-Marie, and Tansey, Kevin

Publication_Date: 2001

Title: GBA 2000 Statistics

Edition:

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Map,Diagram, Tables

Series_Information:

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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, ITALY

Publisher: European Commission

Other_Citation_Details:

Online_Linkage: http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/earlywarning/preview/ims/gba/index.htm

Description:

Abstract:

According to a recent study from Hao and Liu [1994], the African continent, where about two-thirds of the biomass burning is due to savanna fires, contributes to 46 % of the total amount of biomass burnt in the tropics. Although many local to regional studies were carried out during the last few years to characterize vegetation fire activity and its impact on environmental quality and climate, large uncertainties remain at continental level for Africa, in both quantitative and spatio-temporal terms. There is therefore an increased request by the scientific community for a systematic documentation on continental biomass burning, especially by scientists involved in fire emission, land cover changes and tropospheric chemistry studies, in both experimental and modelling fields. It is in this context that the Global Burnt Area 2000 initiative (GBA2000) has been launched by the GVM Unit of the JRC, in partnership with 6 other institutions, with the specific objective being to produce a map of the areas burnt globally for the year 2000, using the medium resolution (1 km) satellite imagery provided by the SPOT-Vegetation system and to derive statistics of area burnt per type of vegetation cover. The datasets are comprised of non-accumulative, monthly products and an annual product (i.e. burnt area in the year 2000). [Summary Information provided by JRC]

Purpose:

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Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: Grgoire J-M., K. Tansey, I. Marengo, D. Stroppiana, and S. Fritz, The Global Burnt Area 2000 initiative: GBA-2000. Mapping the areas burnt globally during the year 2000. Pulications of the European Commission, No. I.01.117, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, January 2002, p. 40. Grgoire J-M., K. Tansey and J.M.N. Silva, The GBA2000 initiative: Developing a global burned area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery, Int. J. Remote Sensing, in press, 2002. Marengo I., J-M. Grgoire, K. Tansey, and P. Peduzzi, 2002, Global Burnt Area 2000: Analysis module, JRC Technical Note No. I.02.39, Publication of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, April 2002, p. 12. Tansey K., 2002, Implementation of regional burnt area algorithms for GBA2000, Publication of the European Commission, in preparation, April 2002. J.M.N. Silva, J. M.C. Pereira, A. I. Cabral, A. C. L. S, M. J.P. Vasconcelos, B. Mota, and J-M. Grgoire (2002). The area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season. Journal of Geophysical Research, SAFARI 2000 Special Issue, submitted. J. M. N. Silva., A. M. O. Sousa, J. M. C. Pereira, K. Tansey and J-M. Grgoire (2002). A contribution for a global burned area map. IV International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Coimbra, Portugal, November 18th - 23rd 2002 Brivio P.A., M. Maggi, E. Binaghi, I. Gallo, 2002. Mapping burned surfaces in Sub-Saharan Africa based on multi-temporal neural classification. Int. J. of Remote Sensing. Brivio P.A., M. Maggi, E. Binaghi, I. Gallo and J.M. Grgoire, 2001. Exploiting spatial and temporal information for extracting burned areas from time series of SPOT-VGT data. In Analysis of MultiTemporal Remote Sensing Images (L. Bruzzone and P. Smits, Eds.), World Scientific, Singapore (in press). Brivio P.A., E. Binaghi, I. Gallo and M. Maggi, 2002. Contextual multitemporal classification of burned areas in coarse resolution imagery. In Geospatial Pattern Recognition (Binaghi E., P.A. Brivio and S. B. Serpico, Eds), Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum, India (in press). Boschetti L., S. Flasse, A. Jacques de Dixmude and S. Trigg, 2001, A multitemporal change-detection algorithm for the monitoring of burnt areas with SPOT-Vegetation data. In L. Bruzzone and P. Smith, (Eds.), First International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, Trento, Italy, 13-14 September 2001. Singapore: World Scientific (in press). Stroppiana D., K. Tansey, J-M. Grgoire, and J.M.C. Pereira, 2002, An algorithm for mapping burnt areas in Australia using SPOT-VEGETATION data. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, February 2002. Tansey K., 2002, Implementation of regional burnt area algorithms for GBA2000, Publication of the European Commission, in preparation, April 2002. R.H. Fraser, R. Fernandes, and R. Latifovic, 2002, Multi-temporal mapping of burned forest over Canada using satellite-based change metrics, Geocarto International, submitted 2002. Achard F., Eva H., and P. Mayaux, Tropical forest mapping from coarse spatial resolution satellite data: production and accuracy assessment issues, Int. J. Remote Sensing, in press 2001, vol. 22, no. 14, 2741-2762. Stibig H-J., J.P. Malingreau, and R. Beuchle, New possibilities of regional assessment of tropical forest cover in insular Southeast Asia using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite image mosaics, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 2001, vol.22, no.4, 503-505

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20000101

Ending_Date: 20001231

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -19.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 54.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -38.0

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD PLATFORM

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD INSTRUMENT

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: PROJECT

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO TOPIC CATEGORY

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: DATA SET LANGUAGE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL RADIANCE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > FORESTS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SAVANNAS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > BIOMASS BURNING

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION > DESERTIFICATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > WILDFIRES

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND TEMPERATURE > LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND COVER

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > FIRE ECOLOGY > FIRE DYNAMICS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > FIRE ECOLOGY > FIRE OCCURRENCE

Theme_Keyword: SPOT-4 > SYSTEME PROBATOIRE POUR L'OBSERVATION DE LA TERRE-4

Theme_Keyword: VEGETATION-1 > VEGETATION INSTRUMENT 1 (SPOT 4)

Theme_Keyword: GBA2000 > GLOBAL BURNT AREA 2000

Theme_Keyword: Gba2000

Theme_Keyword: Burnt Area

Theme_Keyword: Vegetation

Theme_Keyword: Burning

Theme_Keyword: Protected Areas

Theme_Keyword: Vegetation Cover

Theme_Keyword: BIOTA

Theme_Keyword: CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Theme_Keyword: ENVIRONMENT

Theme_Keyword: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Theme_Keyword: IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > AFRICA

Access_Constraints: End-users external to GVM can have access to the data and make use of it in their own field of research and/or application only if they fullfill the use- constraints listed below.

Use_Constraints:

Use of the GBA-2000 datasets for download purposes is provided freely in exchange of the following strict rules: The user do not obtain title to the intellectual property of the data held in this application, nor any copyright or propriety rights to its content. The users are not allowed to transfer, sublicense, rent, lease or sell the data therein. As the data provided are the intellectual property of the organizations which supplied the information, the original source of the data must be fully acknowledged. Please refer to the respective organizations for further inquiries regarding copyright and user limitations (see sources). Under no circumstances will the Joint Research Centre be liable for any damages resulting from use of the "Global Burned Area 2000 data sets" provided on-line.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: JEAN-MARIE GREGOIRE

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: JEAN-PAUL MALINGREAU

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: GVM Unit - Global Vegetation Monitoring

Address: Head of Fire Group

Address: European Commission

Address: Joint Research Centre

Address: (VA)

City: Ispra

Postal_Code: I-21020

Country: Italy

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Address: T.P. 440

Address: Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

City: Ispra (VA)

Postal_Code: I-21020

Country: Italy

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +39-0332-789215

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +39 332 789410

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +39-0332-789073

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +39 332 789073

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jean-marie.gregoire@jrc.it

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jean-paul.malingreau@jrc.it

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The datasets in geographic projection were projected into a cylindrical equal area projection with a pixel spacing of 1000m. Most estimates of burnt areas are displayed in units of ha x103.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

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Process_Step:

Process_Description:

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Process_Date: Unknown

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 5 KM

Longitude_Resolution: 5 KM

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: EU/JRC/IES/GVM > Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Center, European Union

Contact_Person: GLOBAL VEGETATION MONITORING UNIT SECRETARIAT

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Institute for

Address: Environment and Sustainability Joint Research Centre (European

Address: Commission) T.P

City: Ispra (VA)

Postal_Code: 440 I-21020

Country: ITALY

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +39-0332-789298

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +39-0332-789073

Resource_Description: SAI_JRC_Cont_Afr_GBA2000

Distribution_Liability:

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Format_Name: txt.

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://fapar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Home.php

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

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Online_Option:

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http://mercury.ornl.gov/clearinghouse/send/xsltTex...

Access_Instructions:

Metadata in Biological Data Profile format.

Fees: No Fees

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20051228

Metadata_Review_Date: 20121212

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: KEVIN TANSEY

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit,

Address: Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Address: TP. 440

City: Ispra

Postal_Code: 21020

Country: ITALY

Contact_Voice_Telephone: ++39 0332 785769

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: ++39 0332 789073

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: kevin.tansey@jrc.it

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time