NASA's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) announces the release of two data sets in its Vegetation Collections.
"Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 2.1 (GFEDv2.1)" is a global 1 degree by 1 degree gridded data set containing monthly burned area, fuel loads, combustion completeness, and fire emissions from January 1997 through December 2005. Fire emissions are provided for carbon (C), carbon dioxide (C02), methane (CH4), non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), molecular hydrogen (H2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), nitrous oxide (N2), particulate matter (PM2.5), total particulate matter (TPM), total carbon (TC), organic carbon (OC), and black carbon (BC). This data set is intended for use in large-scale modeling studies, and it supersedes and replaces previously published GFEDv1.0 and GFEDv2.0 published in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
"Characteristics of African Savanna Biomes for Determining Woody Cover" is a collection of soil and vegetation characteristics, herbivore estimates, and precipitation measurements for 854 sites across Africa. The data provided were described, analyzed, and published by M. Sankara et al. 2005 in "Determinates of Woody Cover in African Savannas" in NATURE 438 (7069):846-849.
See our Vegetation Collections page to access the data and documentation associated with these and other vegetation data sets maintained by the ORNL DAAC.