Burned area mapping time series in Canada (1984–1999) from NOAA-AVHRR LTDR: A comparison with other remote sensing products and fire perimeters

Burned Area Mapping in the North American Boreal Forest Using Terra-MODIS LTDR (2001–2011): A Comparison with the MCD45A1, MCD64A1 and BA GEOLAND-2 Products

“…The MODIS Brightness Temperature band 31 T 31 (11.03 μm), which is equivalent to the AVHRR band T 4 , was used instead. The results were similar in terms of estimation and accuracy to those obtained in the literature [19] for the 1984-1998 period.…”

“…LTDR Version 3 data was composited into 10-day maximum brightness temperature (MODIS band 31; 11.03 μm) images [19]. These images were generated for the 2000-2012 study period over the entire study area.…”

“…These databases represent the most complete information source of burned area in North America since the 1950s, and they have been often used as reference data to assess the accuracy of different burned area remote sensing products in this region [19][20][21][22][23].…”

“…However, recent published studies on BA products derived from the daily coarse spatial resolution imagery [18][19][20][21][22][23] on a continental/global scale do not provide a quantitative comparison that spans the 2001-2011 decade at the final product level. Besides, as far as we know, there has not been any burned area products developed using the LTDR dataset generated from MODIS imagery.…”

“…(1) To generate a burned area time series for the North American boreal region (2001-2011) from the Terra-MODIS LTDR dataset Version 3 that extends the previous time series (1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999) from the NOAA-AVHRR LTDR dataset Version 3 using the same methodology [19]. (MCD45A1) product [24][25][26], MODIS Collection 5.1 Direct Broadcast Monthly Burned Area Product (MCD64A1) [27] and the Burned Area GEOLAND-2 (BA GEOLAND-2) product derived from VEGETATION, which was an improvement of the Global Burned Area (GBA2000) product and the burned area product developed by the consortium of three academies under the supervision of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (L3JRC) [18].…”