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AVHRR_Fire_Products_1545·v1·dataset

Where forest fires burned, Alaska and Canada 1989-2000

ABoVE: AVHRR-Derived Forest Fire Burned Area-Hot Spots, Alaska and Canada, 1989-2000
biosphere NASA ORNL_CLOUD Level 3 Shapefile
In plain English

What it measures. Where forest fires burned each year and where daily fire hotspots appeared across Alaska and Canada, mapped at 1-kilometer detail for the fire seasons of 1989 to 2000.

How it's made. Derived from the AVHRR instruments on the NOAA-11 and NOAA-14 weather satellites over 12 fire seasons.

How & where you'd use it. Provides a historical record of burned areas and active fires in the far north, useful for studying wildfire trends and their effects on northern forests.

What's measured

BIOSPHERE › ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS › FIRE ECOLOGY › FIRE MODELSBIOSPHERE › ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS › FIRE ECOLOGY › FIRE OCCURRENCEHUMAN DIMENSIONS › NATURAL HAZARDS › WILDFIRES › BURNED AREA

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1989-05-01 → 2000-10-31
  • Measured byNOAA-11 (AVHRR) · NOAA-14 (AVHRR) · MODELS (Computer)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-165.186, 41.7216, -53.1678, 69.007
  • FormatsShapefile
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

This dataset provides annual forest fire burned area and daily hotspot products developed using data acquired from the Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments carried aboard two NOAA polar-orbiting satellites (NOAA-11 and NOAA-14). The fire products were generated over 12 fire seasons (1st May - 31st October) from 1989-2000 across North America at 1-km resolution and subset to the ABoVE spatial domain of Alaska and Canada.

Get the data

avhrr_fire_products_1545_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="AVHRR_Fire_Products_1545",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from ORNL_CLOUD
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