GFED: Global Fire Emissions Database
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The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) "combines satellite information on fire activity and vegetation productivity to estimate gridded monthly burned area and fire emissions, as well as scalars that can be used to calculate higher temporal resolution emissions."
Key Strengths
Key Strengths
Gridded "high resolution"
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Suggested Data Citation
Dataset DOIs
None
Hosted Climate Index Files
None
Data Access
None
Usage Restrictions
None
Key Figures
Other Information
Earth system components and main variables
Type of data product
Dataset collections
None
Years of record
to
Metadata ID
None
Data time period extended
Yes, data set is extended
Timestep
Daily, Monthly, Annual
Domain
Formats:
Input Data
satellite
Vertical Levels:
Missing Data Flag
Spatially complete
Ocean or Land
None
Spatial Resolution
720x1440, 0.25
Model Resolution (reanalysis)
None
Data Assimilation Method
None
Model Vintage (reanalysis)
None
Key Publications
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