MODIS Burned Area Monthly (MCD64A1)

The Terra and Aqua combined MCD64A1 Version 6.1 Burned Area data product is a monthly, global gridded 500 meter (m) product containing per-pixel burned-area and quality information. The MCD64A1 burned-area mapping approach employs 500 m Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Surface Reflectance imagery coupled with 1 kilometer (km) MODIS active fire observations.

Usage

get_mcd64a1(years = 2000:2022)

Source

https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/modis-64A1-061

Arguments

years

Numeric vector of years to make the MCD64A1 product available for. Must be greater than the year 2000.

Value

A function that returns an sf footprint object.

Details

The algorithm uses a burn sensitive Vegetation Index (VI) to create dynamic thresholds that are applied to the composite data. The VI is derived from MODIS shortwave infrared atmospherically corrected surface reflectance bands 5 and 7 with a measure of temporal texture. The algorithm identifies the date of burn for the 500 m grid cells within each individual MODIS tile. The date is encoded in a single data layer as the ordinal day of the calendar year on which the burn occurred with values assigned to unburned land pixels and additional special values reserved for missing data and water grid cells.

References

Giglio, L., C. Justice, L. Boschetti, D. Roy. MODIS/Terra+Aqua Burned Area Monthly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. 2021, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD64A1.061