Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product User’s Guide - Version 1.2. Giglio, L., Boschetti, L., Roy, D., Hoffmann, A. A., Humber, M., & Hall, J. V. .
Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product User’s Guide - Version 1.2 [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
[Excerpt: Introduction] This document contains the most current information about the Collection 6 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Burned Area product suite. It is intended to provide the end user with practical information regarding the use (and misuse) of the products, and to explain some of the more obscure and potentially confusing aspects of the burned area products and MODIS products in general. [::Summary of Collection 6 Algorithm and Product Changes] [::1] The product is now generated using an improved version of the Giglio et al. (2009) MCD64 burned area mapping algorithm (i.e., MCD64A1 will be adopted as the standard MODIS burned area product for Collection 6). The MCD45A1 product will not be generated beyond Collection 5.1. [::2] The product is generated using Collection 6 (versus Collection 5) surface reflectance and active fire input data. [::3] General improvement (reduced omission error) in burned area detection. [::4] Significantly better detection of small burns. [::5] Modest reduction in burn-date temporal uncertainty. [::6] Significant reduction in the occurrence of unclassified grid cells due to algorithm changes and refinements in the upstream Collection 6 input data. [::7] Product coverage expanded from 219 to 268 MODIS tiles. [::8] Expanded per-pixel quality assurance (QA) product layer. [::9] MCD64A1 Burn Date layer now uniquely flags missing-data versus water grid cells. [\n] [...]

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