This data is the result of the fusion of the GFED4, a dataset focused on fire emissions around the world and from INPE historical data of fire spots. Both datasets data were collected by satellites. After data merge they were summarized by month and their corresponding geographical data.
The full dataset description can be found on this Kaggle page.
The main goals for these jupyter notebooks is to analyse the burned area on amazon forests between the period ranging from 1998 to 2016 and to create prediction models for the burned area.