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FIREDpy and FIRED - Python package and daily fire spread and burn perimeter dataset

FIREDpy is a Python Command Line Interface for classifying fire event-level polygons for the fire event delineation (FIRED) product derived from the MODIS MCD64A1 burned area product.

This package uses a space-time window to classify individual burn detections from late-2001 to near-present into discrete events and return both a data table and shapefiles of these events. The user is able to specify the spatial and temporal parameters of the window, as well as the spatial and temporal extent, using either a shapefile or a list of MODIS Sinusoidal Projection tile IDs. Shapefiles include full event polygons by default, and the user has the option of having FIREDpy produce daily-level perimeters, providing a representation of both final and expanding event perimeters.