EMMA is a decision-support site for protected areas in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region—a Global Biodiversity Hotspot and UNESCO World Heritage Site (~20% of Africa’s plant diversity) where fire, climate, and land use shape fynbos. It provides up-to-date regional summaries and park-level reports on vegetation condition, anomalies, fire history, and veld age, in partnership with SAEON.
Open a park on the map below, or compare anomalies and veld age across parks.
Parks and regional veld age
Regional veld age (years since last known fire; color scale capped at 20 for display). Click a park outline for the full report—greenness, fire history, invasives, and climate.
Vegetation anomalies by park
Veld age by park
As-of dates
See the Data page for STAC links, GitHub release tags, coverage definitions, and COG how-to. Product as-of dates:
| Description | Date last updated |
|---|---|
| Website | 2026-Oct-20 |
| EVI (VIIRS→Terra→Aqua fill) | 2026-Sep-21 |
| Weather | 2025-Aug-24 |
Coverage — domain 225,181 km² · parks-union 16,609 km² · valid latest fused EVI 225,000 km² (EVI as of 2026-09-21) · fire-age known 41,136 km² / censored 184,045 km². Fire-age known/censored exclude cells where all fireage bands (age, last burn, is_censored) are NA; censored = never-burned / right-censored (is_censored = 1). Definitions & downloads.
Data freshness — STAC VI datetime: 2026-09-21 · envdata release updated: 2026-10-17 · page built: 2026-10-20 20:00 UTC · STAC catalog · Data page