VIIRS I Band Active Fire Detections for CONUS - 12/24/2021 through 12/31/2021 2300 MDT

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center
Publication_Date: 20211231
Title:
VIIRS I Band Active Fire Detections for CONUS - 12/24/2021 through 12/31/2021 2300 MDT
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Salt Lake City
Online_Linkage:
<https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm/data_viirs_iband/fireptdata/viirs_iband_fire_last7_2021_365_conus.e00.gz>
<https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm/data_viirs_iband/fireptdata/viirs_iband_fire_last7_2021_365_conus_shapefile.zip>
Description:
Abstract:
This dataset represents year 2021 VIIRS I Band active fire detections for the 7 day period specified for the geographic area covering the continental United States including a 50km buffer around the periphery. The detections are obtained using S-NPP VIIRS data collected and processed as a cooperative effort between the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center, University of Maryland, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Direct Readout Laboratory and participating ground stations.
Purpose:
These fire detection data are collected for the USDA Forest Service Active Fire Mapping Program (https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm). These data are intended to provide a synoptic view of cumulative detected fire activity over the specified time period. These data are collected at a spatial resolution of 375 meters and therefore are only intended for geographic display and analysis at the national and regional scales. No responsibility is assumed by the USDA Forest Service in the use and application of these data by end users.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20211224
Ending_Date: 20211231
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: In work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Daily
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -161.9028
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -64.92142
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 70.4029200006
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 18.00049000056
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Active
Theme_Keyword: Fire
Theme_Keyword: Detection
Theme_Keyword: Wildfire
Theme_Keyword: VIIRS
Theme_Keyword: Satellite
Theme_Keyword: Rapid Response
Theme_Keyword: NASA
Theme_Keyword: NASA DRL
Theme_Keyword: IPOPP
Theme_Keyword: S-NPP
Theme_Keyword: Suomi NPP
Theme_Keyword: I Band
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: CONUS
Stratum:
Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Stratum_Keyword: Fire
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal_Keyword: None
Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints:
These data are updated multiple times daily throughout the year, therefore it is recommended that users reacquire the data from the USDA Forest Service as necessary. This dataset is current for the 7 day period ending with the Julian date and time stamp specified. For example, viirs-af_fire_last7_2021_101.e00.gz means that the data set is current for the 7 day period starting on day 95 (April 5, 2021) and ending on day 101 of the year 2021 (April 11, 2021). Acknowledgement of the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center, University of Maryland and NASA would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center
Contact_Position: Rapid Disturbance Assessment and Services Program Leader
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 2222 W. 2300 S.
City: Salt Lake City
State_or_Province: Utah
Postal_Code: 84119
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 801-975-3737
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 801-975-3478
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: None
Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description: None
Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI ArcGIS-Arc/INFO

Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Active fire detection attributes are derived from the VIIRS I Band fire detection algorithm provided by the University of Maryland. The VIIRS I Band algorithm uses the 375 meter imagery bands, or "I Bands", to detect fires and generates a fire detection product four times more spatially resolute than the 750 meter resolution VIIRS-AF product provided by NASA and VIIRS Active Fires Applications Related Product (ARP) provided by NOAA. For additional information on the VIIRS I Band fire detection algorithm and product, see the VIIRS I Band Product Description provided by the University of Maryland.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
S-NPP VIIRS provides complete coverage of the mid to higher latitudes two times daily. S-NPP crosses the equator on an ascending node at 1:30 PM (local time) and also on a descending node at 1:30 AM, similar to Aqua MODIS. VIIRS data are acquired for the majority of the United States and southern Canada in near real time at the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City. VIIRS data for the eastern United States, Alaska, Hawaii and the rest of Canada are acquired near real-time from other selected VIIRS ground stations. VIIRS data are processed within minutes of acquisition at RSAC and other VIIRS ground stations to identify and extract active fire locations.
Completeness_Report:
The active fire detections are discerned using the 375 meter Imagery (I) thermal bands of VIIRS. VIIRS I Band data processing is currently conducted using a codebase provided by the University of Maryland with plans to soon migrate the algorithm to the NASA (International Polar Orbiter Processing Package (IPOPP) framework. VIIRS I Band active fire detections are provided as the centroids of the 375 meter pixels containing detected fire activity and compiled into daily GIS layers with all available fire attributes. Identification of a VIIRS I Band pixel as "fire" does not necessarily mean that the entire area represented by the pixel is on fire. The identification of a fire can be the result of a small hot/intense fire or fire activity over a larger area. At this time, there is no way to discriminate between these two possibilities.

Fires smaller than the 375 meter resolution of VIIRS Imagery (I) bands can be detected. Validation of the VIIRS I Band active fire detection product and estimates of minimum detectable fire size and temperature is ongoing. Several factors may affect the ability to detect fire activity, including timing of fire activity at the time of satellite overpass; cloud cover, heavy smoke and other atmospheric obscurations above the fire; satellite view angle or the location of the fire on the swath of imagery collected by satellite; local land cover heterogeneity, etc.

Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Active fire detection points represent the centroid of the 375 meter pixel for a fire detection. Points are accurate to at least +/- 75 meters.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Type_of_Source_Media: computer program
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20211224
Ending_Date: 20211231
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Contribution:
VIIRS I Band active fire detections derived from codebase provided by the University of Maryland and VIIRS processing capabilities facilitated by the NASA International Polar Orbiter Processing Package (IPOPP) used for USDA Forest Service Active Fire Mapping.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
VIIRS I Band active fire detection data are created through the following general steps:

1) Process raw VIIRS telemetry data (RDRs) to generate level 1 (SDR) products in HDF format using IPOPP.

2) Active fires are detected by processing the SDRs using prototype codebase provided by the University of Maryland to generate level 2 output in HDF and ASCII output and subsequently compiled into daily GIS layers and temporally filtered to extract the past 7 days of data.

3) VIIRS I Band active fire detection GIS datasets are transformed from a WGS84 datum to NAD83 datum.


Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 12355
SDTS_Terms_Description:

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 0.001
Longitude_Resolution: 0.001
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: VIIRS_IBAND_FIRE_LAST7_2021_365.PAT
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: AREA
Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in internal units squared.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Area is always zero for point coverages. Values are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: PERIMETER
Attribute_Definition: Perimeter of feature in internal units.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Perimeter is always zero for point coverages. Values are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: VIIRS_IBAND_FIRE_LAST7_2021_365#
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: VIIRS_IBAND_FIRE_LAST7_2021_365-ID
Attribute_Definition: User-defined feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LAT
Attribute_Definition: Latitude of active fire detection
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 24.0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 50.0
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal Degrees (WGS84)
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LONG
Attribute_Definition: Longitude of active fire detection
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -125.5
Range_Domain_Maximum: -66.0
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal Degrees (WGS84)
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DATE
Attribute_Definition: Date of active fire detection
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 12/24/2021
Range_Domain_Maximum: 12/31/2021 2300 MDT
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Calendar Date
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: JULIAN
Attribute_Definition: Julian date of active fire detection
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 358
Range_Domain_Maximum: 365
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Julian Date
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: GMT
Attribute_Definition: Time of fire detection
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0000
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2400
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Greenwich Mean Time or Universal Time Coordinated
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: BT4TEMP
Attribute_Definition: Measured brightness temperature in 4 micron band (I4)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Degrees Kelvin
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: BT5TEMP
Attribute_Definition: Measured brightness temperature in 11 micron band (I5)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Degrees Kelvin
Attribute:
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SRC
Attribute_Definition: Ground station and/or processing source of VIIRS data and fire detections
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: gsfc-drl
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Direct Readout Laboratory
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: rsac
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: osu
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Oregon State University
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: ssec
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: University of Wisconsin Space Science Engineering Center
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: uaf
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SAT_SRC
Attribute_Definition: Satellite source of VIIRS data and fire detections
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: S-NPP
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CONF
Attribute_Definition: Detection confidence
Attribute_Definition_Source: USDA Forest Service
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Low
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Low level of detection confidence
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Nominal
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Nominal level of detection confidence
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: High
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: High level of detection confidence

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 2222 W. 2300 S.
City: Salt Lake City
State_or_Province: Utah
Postal_Code: 84119
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 801-975-3750
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 801-975-3478
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
Although these data have been used by the USDA Forest Service, the USDA Forest Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in these data is dynamic and is updated daily throughout the current year.

It is the responsibility of the data end user to apply the data appropriately and consistently within the limitations of geospatial data of these scale and accuracy. Using the data for other than their intended purpose may yield inaccurate or misleading results. The USDA Forest Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from authoritative sources and not indirectly through secondary sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the USDA Forest Service, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data.

The USDA Forest Service reserves the right to correct, update or modify this data and related materials without notification.

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<https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm/data_viirs_iband/fireptdata/viirs_iband_fire_last7_2021_365_conus_shapefile.zip>
Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20050411
Metadata_Review_Date: 20050410
Metadata_Future_Review_Date: Annually
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Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center
Contact_Position: Rapid Disturbance Assessment and Services Program Leader
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Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 2222 W. 2300 S.
City: Salt Lake City
State_or_Province: Utah
Postal_Code: 84119
Country: USA
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Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 801-975-3478
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