The Amazon Fire Dashboard (amzfire.servirglobal.net) provides users a bird’s eye view of current or historical fire events in the greater Amazon region and the ability to filter fire events according to location, date range, and fire status. Users can use the map or explore the fire event database to get an overview of all filtered fire events, or they can select a fire event for more insights on the individual fire detections within the cluster. The underlying data product was developed by SERVIR AST Doug Morton, using a new approach to cluster and classify VIIRS active fire detections by fire type in near real time (Andela et al., 2022) and was adapted for web usage by customizing the SERVIR App Template developed at the Science Coordination Office.
The web application was released at the end of July. Based on the fire location, intensity, duration, and spread rate, each individual detection is clustered and classified as a deforestation fire, understory forest fire, small clearing and agricultural fire, or savanna fire. The data aggregation, clustering and fire type classification provided by the Amazon Dashboard, along with the capacity to interact with the data on an accessible web platform, will provide a new vector through which effective monitoring of both anthropogenic and natural fires can be conducted by users in the greater Amazon region. The website was announced on 8/1/23 by SERVIR Amazonia via blog post. The dashboard can be found at amzfire.servirglobal.net. As of today, users can access data from 1/1/23 to 8/28/23.
