Burned Area Mapping in Southern Africa: Case Study Synthesis and Regional Application of MODIS Data

Start Date:

01/01/2001

End Date:

01/01/2004

Project Call:

Land-Cover Land-Use Change

Science Theme:

Detection and Monitoring of LCLUC

Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycle Impacts

Regional Initiative:

Central African Regional Program for the Environment

Region:

Africa

Southern Africa

Team members:

Person Name	Person role on project	Affiliation
David Roy	Principal Investigator	Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States

Abstract:

Systematic monitoring of burned areas is needed by the global change research community as an input to biogeochemical models and to understand and model how fire regimes are likely to change as a function of climate, population dynamics, and land use change. • Southern Africa has the most extensive biomass burning globally and is undergoing rapid social and economic change. Majority of fires are lit by people primarily for land management. • Development of regional multi-year burned area products using MODIS data. • An applications component is included following a guiding GOFC-GOLD principle that the user community play an active role in undertaking product assessment and testing of pre-operational algorithms. • The project collaborators are located at case study sites throughout southern Africa. Multitemporal Landsat ETM+ data acquired over the case study sites used to validate the MODIS burned area products. • Evaluate LCLUC hypotheses that explore the interplay between physical and human variables on fire size and timing at the regional scale.

Project Documents

Year	Authors	Type	Title
2010	David Roy Luigi Boschetti	Publications	Boschetti L. and Roy, D.P., 2009, Strategies for the fusion of satellite fire radiative power with burned area data for fire radiative energy derivation, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 114, D20302, doi:10.1029/2008JD011645.
2010	David Roy Luigi Boschetti	Publications	Archibald, S., Scholes, R.J, Roy, D.P., Roberts, G. Boschetti, L., 2010, Southern African fire regimes as revealed by remote sensing, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19:861–878.
2009	David Roy	Publications	Archibald, S., Roy, D.P., Van Wilgen, B.W., Scholes, R.J., 2009, What Limits Fire?: An examination of drivers of burnt area in sub-equatorial Africa, Global Change Biology, 15, 613–630, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01754.
2009	David Roy Luigi Boschetti	Publications	Roy, D.P and Boschetti, L., 2009, Southern Africa Validation of the MODIS, L3JRC and GLOBCARBON Burned Area Products, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47, 4, 1032 – 1044, DOI 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009000.
2008	David Roy Luigi Boschetti	Publications	Boschetti, L., Roy, D.P. and Justice, C., 2008, Using NASA’s World Wind Virtual Globe for Interactive Visualization of the Global MODIS Burned Area Product, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(11), 3067-3072. This paper is illustrated on the cover of International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(11).
2008	David Roy Luigi Boschetti	Publications	Boschetti, L. and Roy, D.P., 2008, Defining a fire year for reporting and analysis of global inter-annual fire variability, Journal of Geophysical Research., 113, G03020, doi:10.1029/2008JG000686.
2008	David Roy Luigi Boschetti	Publications	Roy, D.P., Boschetti, L., Justice C.O., Ju, J., 2008, The Collection 5 MODIS Burned Area Product – Global Evaluation by Comparison with the MODIS Active Fire Product, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112: 3690–3707.
2007	David Roy	Publications	Trigg, S.N and Roy D.P., 2007, A focus group study of factors that promote and constrain the use of satellite derived fire products by resource managers in southern Africa, Journal of Environmental Management, 82:95-110.
2006	David Roy	Publications	Roy, D.P., Trigg, S.N., Bhima, R., Brockett, B., Dube, O., Frost, P., Govender, N., Landmann, T., Le Roux, J., Lepono, T., Macuacua, J., Mbow, C., Mhwandangara, K., Mosepele, B., Mutanga, O., Neo-Mahupeleng, G., Norman, M., Virgilo, S., The utility of satellite fire product accuracy information – perspectives and recommendations from the southern Africa fire network, 2006, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Land Product Validation Special Issue, Vol. 44, No. 7, 1928-1930.
2005	David Roy	Publications	Privette, J.L. and Roy, D.P., 2005, Southern Africa as a remote sensing testbed: the SAFARI 2000 special issue overview, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4141–4158.
2005		NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Burned Area Mapping in Southern Africa: Case Study Synthesis and Regional Application of MODIS Data. A focus group study of factors that promote and constrain the use of MODIS fire products by resource managers in southern Africa
2005	David Roy	Publications	Roy, D.P., Jin, Y., Lewis, P.E., Justice, C.O., 2005, Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 97: 137-162.
2005	David Roy	Publications	Roy, D.P. and Landmann, T., 2005, Characterizing the surface heterogeneity of fire effects using multi-temporal reflective wavelength data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4197-4218.
2005	David Roy	Publications	Roy, D., Frost, P., Justice, C., Landmann, T., Le Roux, J., Gumbo, K., Makungwa, S., Dunham, K., Du Toit, R., Mhwandagara, K., Zacarias, A, Tacheba, B., Dube, O., Pereira, J., Mushove, P., Morisette, J., Santhana Vannan, S., Davies, D., 2005, The Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) regional burned area product validation protocol, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4265-4292.
2001	David Roy	Abstract	Burned Area Mapping in Southern Africa: Case Study Synthesis and Regional Application of MODIS Data