ESA AVHRR-LTDR Fire_cci Burned Area data: Grid product
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The AVHRR-LTDR Fire_cci Burned Area (BA) product v1.1 (also called FireCCILT11 for short) was obtained based on spectral information from the AVHRR Land Long Term Data Record (LTDR) product version 5 dataset (https://ltdr.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ltdr/ltdrPage.cgi)

FireCCILT11 is available for years 1982 to 2018 at pixel resolution (0.05 degrees) and at grid resolution (0.25 degrees). Year 1994 is not included in the dataset because there was not enough input data from the LTDR Archive to process the dataset for that year.


Details of the Grid product
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The files in these directories include Burned area information with 4 individual layers: Sum of burned area, Standard error, Fraction of Burnable Area, and Fraction of observed area.

A global coverage of 0.25 x 0.25 degrees grid resolution is stored in a single file for each monthly period. 

The grid product is stored in geographical coordinates. Each cell has a latitude and longitude assignment which is tied to centre of the grid cell.


File format
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The product format is NetCDF-CF. 


Further information
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For further information see the Product User Guide at https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/fire/key-documents/.


Example citation:
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Chuvieco, E.; Pettinari, M.L.; Otón, G. (2020): ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (Fire_cci): AVHRR-LTDR Fire_cci Burned Area Grid product, version 1.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 28 December 2020. doi:10.5285/62866635ab074e07b93f17fbf87a2c1a.