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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 54-84Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2016.1208686
Keywords
Earth observation; land cover; remote sensing
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- NASA [NNX10AN72H]
- NASA [NNX10AN72H, 127581] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The Brazilian Tropical Moist Forest Biome (BTMFB) spans almost 4 million km(2) and is subject to extensive annual fires that have been categorized into deforestation, maintenance, and forest fire types. Information on fire types is important as they have different atmospheric emissions and ecological impacts. A supervised classification methodology is presented to classify the fire type of MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fire detections using training data defined by consideration of Brazilian government forest monitoring program annual land cover maps, and using predictor variables concerned with fuel flammability, fuel load, fire behavior, fire seasonality, fire annual frequency, proximity to surface transportation, and local temperature. The fire seasonality, local temperature, and fuel flammability were the most influential on the classification. Classified fire type results for all 1.6 million MODIS Terra and Aqua BTMFB active fire detections over eight years (2003-2010) are presented with an overall fire type classification accuracy of 90.9% (kappa 0.824). The fire type user's and producer's classification accuracies were respectively 92.4% and 94.4% (maintenance fires), 88.4% and 87.5% (forest fires), and, 88.7% and 75.0% (deforestation fires). The spatial and temporal distribution of the classified fire types are presented and are similar to patterns reported in the available recent literature.
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