Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU, Italy Tel: Kevin J. Tansey & Jean-Marie Grégoire A global map of burnt vegetation at 1km resolution for the year 2000 derived from SPOT VGT data With Luigi Boschetti, Alessandro Brivio, Dmitry Ershov, Robert Fraser, Dean Graetz, Marta Maggi, Ilaria Marengo, Pascal Peduzzi, Jose Pereira, João Silva, Adélia Sousa and Daniela Stroppiana

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Burning Issues Biomass burning contributes up to 40% CO 2, 16% CH 4 and 45% CO of anthropogenic emissions

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit The GBA2000 Initiative The GLOBAL BURNT AREA 2000 Project oBiomass burning and land cover change Biodiversity, Desertification and Climate Change Conventions oBiomass burning and atmospheric emission GHG and Aerosol / Climate change conventions oIn response to scientific community needs Climate and ecosystem modelers EU Development and Environment Policy Land use planners and decision makers Assistance to Kyoto Protocol validation experiments

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit The GBA2000 Approach oSPOT4 VGT S1 global daily images 4 spectral bands, 1 km resolution, surface reflectance o6 Dedicated regional algorithms Performance of algorithms evaluated with TM data Selection of ‘best’ algorithm made outside regions oMonthly/annual burnt area map products oStatistics of burnt areas oA documented and validated methodology oRegional accuracy of the global product

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Where the GBA2000 algorithms are applied

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit The months when the algorithms are applied

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Information/Data Access 1: IMS hosted by UNEP GRID (Switzerland) Interactive search features (region) Zoom in/out, pan etc. Select month of interest Change the background layer Overlay WCMC protected areas Overlay country borders 2: GBA2000 Website hosted by the JRC Latest News Partner/Contact Info. Obtain reference/source information (also at UNEP) Download binary data (also at UNEP) View statistics (also at UNEP)

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit GBA2000 Statistical Products oReporting at global scale oReporting at country/provincial level oReporting at protected area (PA) level oReporting at 1/2 o, 1 o grid & 5 o strip levels oReporting per land cover type University of Maryland global 1km land cover product (UMD) IGBP-DIS global land cover product (IGBP) JRC Global Land Cover 2000 (GLC2000) product MODIS global land cover product

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Fire Seasonality Derived from the GBA2000 Product

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit 1/2 o Grid Burned Area Density % of the surface area of each 1/2 o grid cell burnt in the year 2000 Alaska Kazakhstan Russia Angola DR Congo Australia USA ArgentinaChile

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit 5 o Land Strip Burned Area Density

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit JRC BA Analysis Module

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Algorithm Performance Surface area accuracy of burn scars compared to TM data Sampling grid of 15x15 km, regression line, R 2, little effect due to the low resolution bias UTL Europe R 2 = 0.71 UTL AfricaR 2 = 0.4 – 0.99 (site dependent) CNRR 2 = 0.6 Per pixel confusion matrix using TM data CNR OA = 82.3% – 87% (C. Africa) Overall (OA), omission (OM) and commission (COM) map accuracies determined IFIR 2 = 0.89* JRC (Stroppiana)COM = 36% (Australian tropical savannas) * errors in burnt area mapping reported to be less than 15% Burnt surface area statistics compared to inventories/fire surveys CCRSOM = 15.5% (2000)** ** OM in Canada in 1998 = 23%, 1999 = 11%. OM in the USA in 2000 = 6.6% Work in progress: UOE/UTL and JRC(Boschetti) Per pixel confusion matrix using a visual classification of 1km data

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Next Steps oFeedback on  version -> end November oRegional assessment of the global product Using TM scenes not previously used for regional assessment oProcessing chain -> ESA (Globcarbon 98-03) oUse Global Fire Analysis GIS Modules (JRC) oStrengthen our collaboration with: Atmospheric modelers: ACE-ASIA (2001) - West Africa Monsoon (WAM) (2003) Contribution to the EDGAR emission database Land cover change modelers: Land Use – Land Cover Change (LUCC) project of the IGBP Land resource managers

Institute for Environment and Sustainability Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit Conclusions oA global ‘high resolution’ map of areas burnt from a single source of information oThe methods used are fully documented which allows: (i) Repeatability and (ii) Evaluation from the users. oA similar multi-annual dataset ( ) will be produced: By ESA (with co-operation from the JRC) in the context of the GLOBCARBON initiative.