**** General Information:

      - Dataset of 10 covariates in a raster format, in a form of fixed spatial grid with 500m spatial resolution and temporal frequency of the month for the time period of 2001-2020

      - Data is available in three categories of Raw, Pre-Processed and Working

        > Raw Data: 		Data as acquired from source, generally with a global or regional (south american) extent
        > Pre-Processed Data:   Source data of covariates with varying specifications transformed to the same projection system and same file format
        > Working Data:		Pre-Processed data cropped to Amazon region extent with spatial resolution of 500 meters and monthly temporal resolution

      - List of Covariates and their original data sources are available below

      - Shapefile of Amazon basin boundary is also available in the folder


 **** Coordinate System:

	[EPSG:4326 - World Geodetic64 System (WGS) 84 - Geographic]


 **** Data Extent:

	[-79.43629, -18.00816 : -44.49108, 8.66346]


 **** Data Sources:

	> Burnt Area:		University of Maryland FTP server (check userguide) in HDF format

	> Land Cover:		https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd12c1v006/ in HDF file format - one hdf file per year (2001 to 2020)
	
	> Precipitation:	https://arthurhouhttps.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ in GEOTIFF file format - 12 geotiff files (monthly) per year (2001 to 2020)

	> Soil Moisture:	https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-soil-moisture?tab=form in NetCDF (.nc) file format

	> Elevation:		https://www.earthenv.org/topography in geotiff file format

	> Land Surface Temp:	https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod11c3v006/ in HDF file format - 12 hdf files (monthly) per year (2001 to 2020)

	> Specific Humidity:	https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/FLDAS/FLDAS_NOAH01_C_GL_M.001/ in NETCDF format - 12 files (monthly) per year (2001 to 2020)

	> Evapotranspiration:	(same as specific humidity)

	> Wind Speed:		(same as specific humidity)

	> Air Temperature:	(same as specific humidity)