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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Remote Sens Environ. 2016 Sep 20;186:465–478. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.09.016

Table 3:

Description of the geographic and fire activity strata for 2008 over the landmasses between 60°S and 75°N. The global total reports the sum of all the low and high fire activity strata of the seven biomes.

Biome Number
of TSA
hexagons
Number
of
voxels		 Total active
fire area
[km2]		 High /Low
fire activity
threshold
[km2]		 Number of
high fire
voxels
(percent of all
N voxels)		 Number of
low fire
voxels
(percent of all N
voxels)
Tropical Forest  1352  31096 1262907  112  2333
 (1.3%)		  28763
 (16.1%)
Temperate Forest  1126  25898 333222  39  1436
 (0.8%)		  24462
 (13.7%)
Boreal Forest  2070  47610 135632  82  349
 (0.2%)		  47261
 (26.4%)
Tropical Savanna  851  19573 4288425  517  2198
 (1.2%)		  17375
 (9.7%)
Temperate
Savanna		  775  17825 472073  95  934
 (0.5%)		  16891
 (9.4%)
Mediterranean  258  5934 41692  20  426
 (0.2%)		  5508
 (3.1%)
Deserts/Xeric
Shrublands		  1347  30981 324360  61  813
 (0.5%)		  30168
 (16.9%)
Global Total  7779  178917 6859727  -  8489
 (4.7%)		  170428
 (95.3%)