Changes to Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program’s production procedures and data products
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Abstract
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program has been providing the fire science community with large fire perimeter and burn severity data for the past 14 years. As of October 2019, 22 969 fires have been mapped by the MTBS program and are available on the MTBS website (https://www.mtbs.gov). These data have been widely used by researchers to examine a variety of fire and climate science topics. However, MTBS has undergone significant changes to its fire mapping methodology, the remotely sensed imagery used to map fires, and the subsequent fire occurrence, burned boundary, and severity databases. To gather a better understanding of these changes and the potential impacts that they may have on the user community, we examined the changes to the MTBS burn mapping protocols and whether remapped burned area boundary and severity products differ significantly from the original MTBS products.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Changes to Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program’s production procedures and data products |
| Series title | Fire Ecology |
| DOI | 10.1186/s42408-020-00076-y |
| Volume | 16 |
| Year Published | 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 16, 12 p. |
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