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Overview

Dataset Title	Total number of years of burns per 500 m by 500 m grid from 2001 to 2024	?
Abstract	The number of years with burn area detections from the MCD64A1 Version 6.1 Burned Area data product, in a 500 m by 500 m grid between 2001 to 2024.	?
Topic Category	environment	?

Data Quality

Lineage Statement

The annual area burnt has been derived from the MCD64A1 Version 6.1 Burned Area data product, a gridded 500 meter (m) product containing per-pixel burned-area dataset. From this, the analysis derived the number of years with burnt area detected in a 500 m by 500 m grid.

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Dataset Description

Dataset Contact Person or Dataset Contact Organisation	SASSCAL - Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management	?
Dataset Date Type	publication	?
Dataset Reference Date	2025-09-01	?
Dataset Language	English	?
Dataset Character Set	utf7	?
Dataset Online Linkage	https://sasscal.org/map-of-the-month/	?
Dataset Format	GeoTIFF	?
Dataset Scope	dataset	?
Dataset Status	completed	?
Associated project	SASSCAL	?

Geographic Location

Geographic Description

Southern Africa

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Spatial Resolution

Spatial Representation Type	vector	?
Equivalent Scale	-1	?

Coordinate System

EPSG

WGS 84 (lat/long)

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Temporal Extent

Begin	2001-01-01	?
End	2024-12-31	?

Additional Extent Information

Vertical Datum

WGS84

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Metadata

Metadata Contact Person	Thompson, Sylvia	?
Metadata Language	English	?
Metadata Character Set	utf8	?
Metadata Standard Name	ISO/DIS 19115 for Geographic information-Metadata /RBIS	?
Metadata Date Stamp	2025-09-05	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_7513 (Link)