Fire Affected Areas in Africa

The Fire Product: Fire Affected Areas in Africa was part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) Regional Satellite Fire Data Compilation CD-ROM. AVHRR data have been used to map the active fire spatial and temporal distribution all around the world. This data set is a first temporal sample of the future Burned Area Product for Africa that will show the burned area distribution during a ten year period. NOAA-AVHRR-GAC-5 km is the input data used to produce the burned area maps and consists of a daily series of images covering the whole African continent for the period July 1981 to January 1992. This data set presents the first Africa weekly continental product showing areas affected by fire for the period between 8 November 1990 and 23 January 1991. It covers all the African Continent (19W to 54E, 38N to 38S) though the values presented are restricted to the burning regions. The fire affected area pixel code corresponds to the number of the week starting in November (e.g. 2 for the week between 8 and 14 of November). The full year data could be available under request.