The Global Burnt Area 2000 initiative

GBA-2000

Mapping, from SPOT-VEGETATION S1 imagery, of the areas burnt globally during the year 2000

Final results

J-M. Grégoire & K. Tansey

with

E. Binaghi, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, S. Flasse, R. Fraser, D. Graetz, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.C. Pereira, J.M.N. Silva, A. Sousa and D. Stroppiana

March 2003

GBA-2000 Product definition

a binary map (burnt-unburnt)

monthly non-accumulative global burn scar map, at 1 km resolution

statistics of burnt areas

area burnt in 2000 per country, per month, and

per main types of vegetation cover

Global burned area estimates for each month of the year 2000

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% of total burned area per month in the year 2000

January13%

February4%

March3%

April7%

May6%

June9%

July10%

August9%

September10%

October7%

November7%

December15%

% of burned area in the year 2000 in six continents

16.0%

13.6%

1.1%

64.3%

3.2%

1.8%

Australasia

Asia incl. Russia

Europe

Africa

South America

North Americaincl. C. America

Total annual burned area estimated at 3.5 million km2

> 600,000 burn scars detected

% of total global burned area in the year 2000 for four grouped vegetation classes

1.5%

80.8%

16.5% 1.2%

Needleleaf andMixed Forests

BroadleafForests

Woodlands andShrublands

Grasslands andCroplands

Africa:Total annual burned area estimated at 2.6 million km2

> 300,000 burn scars detected

Seasonal distribution of burning activity in Africafor the Year 2000

Monthly estimates of burned areas in Africa for three grouped vegetation classes in the year 2000

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February

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April

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November

December

Burned Area (km2)

Broadleaf Forests

Woodlands andShrublands

Grasslands andCroplands

More on GBA2000

Tansey K., 2002,Implementation of regional burnt area algorithms for the GBA2000 initiativePublications of the European Commission, EUR 20532, December 2002, pp. 159

Tansey K., J-M. Grégoire, I. Marengo, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, R. Fraser,M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.C. Pereira, J.M.N. Silva and D. Stroppiana , 2002, A global mapof burnt vegetation at 1km resolution for the year 2000 derived from SPOT VGT dataQuantifying Terrestrial Carbon Sinks, Wengen, Switzerland, Sep. 25 - 27, 2002.Climatic Change, review phase, March 2003

Grégoire J-M., K. Tansey, and J.M.N. Silva, 2003, The GBA2000 initiative: Developinga global burned area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imageryInt. J. Remote Sensing, Volume 24, Number 6/March 20, 2003, 1369 - 1376.

Tansey K. et al., 2003,Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned areaestimates from SPOT VEGETATION data, J. of Geophysical Research, special Issue onGlobal Trace Gaz Emissions from Biomass Burning, submitted, March 2003.

http://www.gvm.jrc.it/fire/gba2000/index.htm

http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/earlywarning/preview/ims/gba/

Perspectives

A selection of GBA2000 algorithms

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