4.10 BUSH FIRES 1996- 2000 - SOURCE DATA

Data ID

Description:

Areas burnt by bush fires during 1996

Chapter:

4 Living Resources

File name:

1996

File type:

ArcView grid

Geographical area:

Caprivi

Okavango

Keywords:

1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

fire

Notes on data, analysis and

Derived from fire scar data compiled and analysed by Johan le Roux and Simon Trigg at Etosha Ecological Institute.

compilation:

Map units of the grid = km.

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

1000m resolution

Vector/Raster:

Raster

Spatial reference

Projection:

Albers Conical Equal Area

Spheroid

Bessel

Standard parallel1

-27

Standard parallel2

-19

Longitude of central meridian

18.5

Latitude of projection origin

-27

Fields

Field name

Field description

Value

1 = burnt

Count

Number of grid cells with the same value

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Etosha Ecological Institute

Contact:

Johan le Roux

Online/Offline Address:

Etosha Ecological Institute

Private Bag 13306

Windhoek

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted