Canada National Burned Area Composite (NBAC)¶
The National Burned Area Composite (NBAC) is a GIS database and system that calculates the area of forest burned on a national scale for each year since 1986. The data are used to help estimate carbon emissions in Canada. The burned area is determined by evaluating a number of available sources of data, which use different techniques to map any given fire. The system chooses the best available source of data for each burned area and builds a national composite picture.
The NBAC is part of the Fire Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System (FireMARS), jointly developed by the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (formerly the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) of Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Forest Service. Initially, FireMARS was developed with funding support from the Canadian Space Agency Government Related Initiatives Program through a collaboration of those in fire research, forest carbon accounting and remote sensing.
Data are provided for NBAC from: • Natural Resources Canada, and • Provincial, Territorial, and Parks Canada agencies.
The NBAC can be used for spatial and temporal analyses of landscape-scale fire impacts. You can download the datasets here
Supplemental Information¶
NBAC is a national product compiled annually since 1986 by the FireMARS system which tracks forest fires for annual estimates of carbon emissions and to help identify National Forest Inventory plots that may have been disturbed by fire. See the FireMARS website at (http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/forests/fire/13159) and carbon accounting - disturbance monitoring website (http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/forests/climate-change/13109) for additional information.
When using these data for mapping activities and analysis, research, evaluation or display, please acknowledged the source using the following citation:
Canadian Forest Service. National Burned Area Composite (NBAC). Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta. https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/.
Citation¶
Skakun, R.; Castilla, G.; Metsaranta, J.; Whitman, E.; Rodrigue, S.; Little, J.; Groenewegen, K.; Coyle, M. (2022). Extending the National Burned
Area Composite Time Series of Wildfires in Canada. Remote Sensing, 14, 3050. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14133050
Skakun, R.S.; Whitman, E.; Little, J.M.; and Parisien, M.-A. (2021). Area burned adjustments to historical wildland fires in Canada. Environmental
Research Letters 16 064014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfb2c
Hall, R.J.; Skakun, R.S.; Metsaranta, J.M.; Landry, R.; Fraser, R.H.; Raymond, D.A.; Gartrell, J.M.; Decker, V. and Little, J.M. (2020). Generating
annual estimates of forest fire disturbance in Canada: the National Burned Area Composite. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 10.1071/WF19201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19201
Earth Engine Snippet¶
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License¶
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). When using these data for mapping activities and analysis, research, evaluation or display, please acknowledged the source using the following citation: Canadian Forest Service. National Burned Area Composite (NBAC). Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta. https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/.
Created by: Natural Resources Canada,Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
Curated in GEE by : Samapriya Roy
Keywords: canada,burned area,forestry,forest fire,wildfire
Last updated in GEE: 2024-04-02