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MODIS/Terra+Aqua Direct Broadcast Burned Area Monthly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V006
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Description
The MCD64A1 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MCD64A1 Version 6.1 data product. The Terra and Aqua combined MCD64A1 Version 6 Burned Area data product is a monthly, global gridded 500 meter (m) product containing per-pixel burned-area and quality information.
The MCD64A1 burned-area mapping approach employs 500 m Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Surface Reflectance imagery coupled with 1 kilometer (km) MODIS active fire observations. The algorithm uses a burn sensitive Vegetation Index (VI) to create dynamic thresholds that are applied to the composite data. The VI is derived from MODIS shortwave infrared atmospherically corrected surface reflectance bands 5 and 7 with a measure of temporal texture.
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The algorithm identifies the date of burn for the 500 m grid cells within each individual MODIS tile. The date is encoded in a single data layer as the ordinal day of the calendar year on which the burn occurred with values assigned to unburned land pixels and additional special values reserved for missing data and water grid cells. The data layers provided in the MCD64A1 product include Burn Date, Burn Data Uncertainty, Quality Assurance, along with First Day and Last Day of reliable change detection of the year.
Known Issues
* Known issues are described on the MODIS Land Quality Assessment website and in Section 8 of the User Guide which covers Cropland Burning, the August 2000 and June 2001 Data Outages, and the August 2020 Aqua Outage.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/modis/mcd64a1.006 ↗
download · DOI / persistent id · from data nasa gov
- Resource earthdata.nasa.gov/centers/lp-daac ↗
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- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/875/MCD64_User_Guide_V6.pdf ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/115/MCD64_ATBD_V6.pdf ↗
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- Resource ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/filespec/MODIS/6/MCD64A1 ↗
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2763297163-LPCLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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- Resource landweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/modis-terraaqua-direct-broadcast-burned-area-monthly-l… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=05a0958f-2ffb-40c1-9088-347c7083f… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Life Sciences · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Ecological applications 70% · Imaging 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 13 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 05a0958f-2ffb-40c1-9088-347c7083faaf | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4102 | enrichment · data nasa gov | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (70%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
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| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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