Published April 23, 2020 | Version 2

A classification scheme to determine wildfires from the satellite record in the cool grasslands of southern Canada: considerations for fire occurrence modelling and warning criteria

  • 1. Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, Canada

Description

This data set can be used to reproduce the results from the following paper: "A classification scheme to determine wildfires from the satellite record in the cool grasslands of southern Canada: considerations for fire occurrence modelling and warning criteria".

The Landsat Images are a series of pngs obtained from https://landbrowser.airc.aist.go.jp/hotarea/ representing agricultural fires in our study area (Kato et al., 2018).

Model_Input_MODIS_Hotspot_Clusters_Revised.csv contains a list of clusters of MODIS hotspots and associated attributes classified as either agricultural or grassland wildfires and is used to create a GAM to explore the conditions of these fires.

Model_Predicted_MODIS_Hotspot_Clusters_Revised.csv contains the complete list of MODIS hotspot clusters and associated attributes for our study area from 2002-2018.  These clusters have been classified as either agricultural or grassland wildfires using the GAM mentioned above.

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References

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  • Didan, K., Munoz, A. B., Solano, R. and Huete, A.: MODIS Vegetation Index User's Guide (MOD13 Series) Version 3.00, Vegetation Index and Phenology Lab, The University of Arizona. [online] Available from: https://vip.arizona.edu/documents/MODIS/MODIS_VI_UsersGuide_June_2015_C6.pdf, 2015
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  • Giglio, L.: MODIS Collection 6 Active Fire Product User's Guide Revision A, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland. [online] Available from: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/88/MOD14_User_Guide_v6.pdf, 2015.
  • Kato, S., Kouyama, T., Nakamura, R., Matsunaga, T. and Fukuhara, T.: Simultaneous retrieval of temperature and area according to sub-pixel hotspots from nighttime Landsat 8 OLI data, Remote Sens. Environ., 204, 276–286, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.025, 2018.
  • Hanes, C. C., Wang, X., Jain, P., Parisien, M.-A., Little, J. M. and Flannigan, M. D.: Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century, Can. J. For. Res., 49(3), 256–269, doi:10.1139/cjfr-2018-0293, 2018.