Active Fire Incidents in Bhutan

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) based active fire incidents in Bhutan from March 2012 to June 2016. The active fire data has been overlaid with land cover data of Bhutan to find out forest fire incidents in the country.

Date ( Publication ): 2012-03-01T00:00:00

Edition: First

Identifier: bt

Presentation form: Digital image

Purpose: This dataset has been developed to establish Forest Bhutan Fire Detection and Monitoring System.

Credit: This dataset has been developed under SERVIR Himalaya Initiative. SERVIR is a joint USAID-NASA project. For more information on SERVIR, visit http://www.servirglobal.net.

Status: Completed

Custodian

ICIMOD - Sameer Bajracharya ( Research Associate GIS )

ICIMOD , Kathmandu , Khumaltar lalitpur , GPO Box 3226 , Nepal

977-1-5275222
977 1 5003299

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

MODIS
Active fire
Forest fire
Disaster
servircat
icimod-servir

Keywords ( Place )

Bhutan

Resource constraints

Use limitation: geossDataCore

Use limitation: Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2012). Active Fire Incidents in Bhutan [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.28607

Use limitation: Users are permitted to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute SERVIR data without limitations. SERVIR encourages users to keep any adapted or redistributed versions of this data freely available for public use.

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 25000

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Location

Begin date: 2012-02-01

End date: 2016-02-29

Supplemental Information: The active fire data has been generated in-house by ICIMOD's MODIS receiving station since March 2013. Prior to establishment of the MODIS receiving station at ICIMOD, the fire data was obtained from the FIRMS website (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms).