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US Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Atlas- Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 1992

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) requests burn severity assessments through an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to be completed by analysts with the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program. These data products are burned area boundary shapefiles derived from post-fire sensor data (including Landsat TM, Landsat ETM+, Landsat OLI). The pre-fire and post-fire subsets included were used to create Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and then a differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) image. The objective of this assessment was to generate burned area boundaries for each fire. Data bundles also include post-fire subset, pre-fire subset, NBR, and dNBR images. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 1992. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

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Author(s) United States Geological orcid, US Forest Service orcid, Kurtis Nelson orcid
Publication Date 2024-01-26
Beginning Date of Data 1992
Ending Date of Data 1992
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P97UMU6K
Citation Geological, U.S., Service, U.F., and Nelson, K., 2024, US Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Atlas- Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 1992: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P97UMU6K.
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