FIRESPAIN-025: A Gridded Burned Area Product for Peninsular Spain and Balearic Islands
type: Item
instance of: data set
description: FIRESPAIN-025 is a gridded daily database of burned area (BA) created on the basis of the General Forest Fire Statistics (Estadstica General de Incendios Forestales, EGIF, https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/temas/incendios-forestales/estadisticas-datos.html). BA is recognized as an Essential Climate Variable by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), highlighting its importance in understanding and monitoring climate change impacts. EGIF is a publicly available database that collects information on all forest fires occurring in Spain as obtained from the standardized Forest Fire Reports submitted by the Autonomous Communities every year to the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. EGIF includes more than 150 data fields for each fire event. It was initiated in 1968 and it is one of the most complete international data series on forest fires, offering valuable insights into fire dynamics and impacts. However, the comprehensive nature of EGIF also needs a relational database format, which requires tailored queries to retrieve specific information, such as total BA records per reported fire event. To address these needs and facilitate broader use of the data, we have developed a new product that organizes the database into a standard, gridded format (netCDF) of BA. This format simplifies data access and analysis, enabling researchers and practitioners to more easily integrate the information into their workflows for further studies and applications.
publication date: 2025-01-14T00:00:00Z
author: Joaquín Bedia
author: Celia García Feced
author: Andrina Gincheva
author: Óscar Mirones
author: Marcelino Nunez Corchero
author: María Postigo
author: David Ramos
author: Ramiro Romero
author: Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez
author: Marco Turco
Zenodo ID: 14644902
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14644902
copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dataset version identifier: 0
MaRDI profile type: Dataset
description: Dataset published at Zenodo repository.