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@ARTICLE{Mouillot:135035,
      author       = {Mouillot, Florent and Schultz, Martin G. and Yue, Chao and
                      Cadule, Patricia and Tansey, Kevin and Ciais, Philippe and
                      Chuvieco, Emilio},
      title        = {{T}en years of global burned area products from spaceborne
                      remote sensing—{A} review: {A}nalysis of user needs and
                      recommendations for future developments},
      journal      = {International journal of applied earth observation and
                      geoinformation},
      volume       = {26},
      issn         = {0303-2434},
      address      = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Elsevier Science},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2013-03037},
      pages        = {64 - 79},
      year         = {2014},
      abstract     = {Early global estimates of carbon emissions from biomass
                      burning were based on empirical assumptions of fire return
                      interval in different biomes in the 1980s. Since then,
                      significant improvements of spaceborne remote sensing
                      sensors have resulted in an increasing number of derived
                      products characterizing the detection of active fire or the
                      subsequent burned area (GFED, MODIS MCD45A1, L3JRC,
                      Globcarbon, GBS, GLOBSCAR, GBA2000). When coupled with
                      global land cover and vegetation models allowing for
                      spatially explicit fuel biomass estimates, the use of these
                      products helps to yield important information about the
                      spatial and the temporal variability of emission estimates.
                      The availability of multi-year products (>10 years) leads to
                      a better understanding of uncertainties in addition to
                      increasing accuracy. We surveyed a wide range of users of
                      global fire data products whilst also undertaking a review
                      of the latest scientific literature. Two user groups were
                      identified, the first being global climate and vegetation
                      modellers and the second being regional land managers. Based
                      on this review, we present here the current needs covering
                      the range of end-users. We identified the increasing use of
                      BA products since the year 2000 with an increasing use of
                      MODIS as a reference dataset. Scientific topics using these
                      BA products have increased in diversity and area of
                      application, from global fire emissions (for which BA
                      products were initially developed) to regional studies with
                      increasing use for ecosystem management planning. There is a
                      significant need from the atmospheric science community for
                      low spatial resolution (gridded, 1/2 degree cell) and long
                      time series data characterized with supplementary
                      information concerning the accuracy in timing of the fire
                      and reductions of omission/commission errors. There is also
                      a strong need for precisely characterizing the perimeter and
                      contour of the fire scar for better assimilation with land
                      cover maps and fire intensity. Computer and earth
                      observation facilities remain a significant gap between
                      ideal accuracies and the realistic ones, which must be fully
                      quantified and comprehensive for an actual use in global
                      fire emissions or regional land management studies.},
      cin          = {IEK-8},
      ddc          = {550},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
      pnm          = {233 - Trace gas and aerosol processes in the troposphere
                      (POF2-233)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-233},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:000328868300007},
      doi          = {10.1016/j.jag.2013.05.014},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/135035},
}