SCAR-B Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (ABBA) Fire Product

The SCAR-B GOES-8 diurnal data set has been reprocessed with an updated version of the GOES-8 ABBA (Version 4.5), and data included here come out of this reprocessing. The SCAR-B GOES-8 ABBA fire product study region extends from 75W to 35W and from 0S to 40S. The data set consists of ASCII files and corresponding GIF files.

Each ASCII file consists of information for active fires identified in GOES-8 multispectral imagery by the GOES-8 Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm at a specific time period. Information for a given fire pixel includes fire pixel location (longitude/latitude); estimated fire size (km2) and average fire temperature (K); fire pixel ecosystem type; and fire pixel flag (ranging from 0 to 2). The ecosystem type is based on the Olson World Ecosystems database (Version 1.4D, Olson, 1992).

GIF files are graphical depictions of the fire product contained in the ASCII files. Each GIF file displays the diurnal GOES-8 ABBA fire product for the study region on a given date. The display consists of four panels showing the locations of GOES-8 ABBA derived fire pixels on a mercator projection at four time periods (1145, 1445, 1745 and 2045 UTC).

Additional information on this data set can be found at: "cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/burn/abba.html"