SpatialData.gov.scot
Scottish wildfire and muirburn extents
Dataset containing best available data on wildfires and muirburn locations in Scotland from 2018 onwards. Owing to limitations in satellite imagery availability (cloud) and staff resources this will not be a complete dataset of burns in Scotland.
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Identification info
- Alternative title
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Scotland_burn_extents
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2018-12-31
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2022-04-04
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-09-02
- Identifier
- 01DB019C-EB3D-2919-E063-6B20C80AB042
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Credit
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© NatureScot, licensed under the Open Government Licence
© European Union, 2000-2018
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Date of next update
- 2023-09-01
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land use
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Habitats and biotopes
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Land cover
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Natural risk zones
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- Use limitation
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Available under the Open Government Licence ( https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/)
- Limitations on Public Access
- Copyright
- Other constraints
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© NatureScot, licensed under the Open Government Licence
© European Union, 2000-2018
- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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© NatureScot, licensed under the Open Government Licence
© European Union, 2000-2018
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no conditions to access and use
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 10 m
- Topic category
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- Environment
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 2018-01-01T00:00:00
- End
- 2022-04-30T00:00:00
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / 27700 / 6.3(3.0.1)
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
ESRI File geodatabase
Geopackage
GeoJSON
GML
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Conformity
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Explanation
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Dataset not assessed
- Degree
- true
- Statement
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This dataset provides best available burn data from 3 different sources:
1) Individual wildfires mapped by NatureScot, usually where they impact on protected sites. Taken from Sentinel-2 imagery Spatial accuracy: very high.
2) Data from the European Forest Fire Information System. Taken from MODIS satellite. Spatial accuracy: moderate. Burns are correctly identified by spatial boundaries more generalised owing to the spatial resolution of the sensor.
3) Semi-automated wildfire and muirburn detection by NatureScot using all available Sentinel-2 imagery and a threshold detection algorithm. Spatial accuracy: variable - often high in patches of muirburn (though some patches will be missed), lower over wildfires and/or grassland habitats.
Burns have been manually checked so there will be few false positives. However some burn patches will have been missed, perhaps individual ones or larger areas of burn patches if suitable imagery was not available.
Dataset fields:
NAME: Name given to wildfire
SOURCE: One of:
• EFFIS
• NatureScot – manual
• NatureScot – automated
• JHI
DATE: Exact date of fire if known
PREFIREDATE: Date of S2 imagery in comparison (automated detection only)
POSTFIREDATE: Date of S2 imagery in comparison (automated detection only)
MONTHYEAR: Common date field for all burns. Contains date of fire if known otherwise date of postfire image used. Used for slicing/displaying the data.
AREA_HA: Area in hectares
REGION: One of four regions of Scotland to allow analysis.
SEASON: three seasons for analysis: T1 is Jan-Apr, T2 is May-Sep and T3 is Oct-Dec. The year is appended.
Metadata
- File identifier
- bf1698a3-4ef6-4c3d-b691-a35b334d8bcc XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-01-08T12:50:58.433Z
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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Data Supply
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Electronic mail address
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data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
- Role
- Point of contact