Wildfire Radiative Power, Detection Confidence, Mean and Maximum Brightness band, derived from Cumulative MODIS fire detection, Louisiana 2003-2011.

These data are used to represent the spatial, temporal and thermal characteristics of wildfires in southeast Louisiana beginning in 2003 and extending until 2011. The fire detection points are placed at the centroids of the 1km*1km MODIS grid cells and contain the date collected as well as the derived Fire Radiative Potential which was used to represent intensity. Graphs of normalized and non-normalized wildfire detection frequency were created to examine the temporal trends associated with wildfires in both the marine wetland environment as well southeast Louisiana in general. These temporal trends were useful in identifying periods of peak wildfire activity as well as defining a fire season or seasons to be used in both in statistical analysis of wildfire intensity as well as the kernel density maps. This data was also created in support of a GoMRI Year One grant and is also registered with GRIIDC as dataset Y1.x103.000:0002.