Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products

Franquesa, Magí; Vanderhoof, Melanie K.; Stavrakoudis, Dimitris; Gitas, Ioannis Z.; Roteta, Ekhi; Padilla, Marc; Chuvieco, Emilio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3229-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3229-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3229-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Data description paper

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08 Dec 2020

Data description paper |

| 08 Dec 2020

Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products

Magí Franquesa, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Dimitris Stavrakoudis, Ioannis Z. Gitas, Ekhi Roteta, Marc Padilla, and Emilio Chuvieco

Data sets

BARD: a global and regional validation burned area database, V.4.0 M. Franquesa, M. K. Vanderhoof, D. Stavrakoudis, I. Gitas, E. Roteta, M. Padilla, and E. Chuvieco https://doi.org/10.21950/BBQQU7

Short summary

The article presents a database of reference sites for the validation of burned area products. We have compiled 2661 reference files from different international projects. The paper describes the methods used to generate and standardize the data. The Burned Area Reference Data (BARD) is publicly available and will facilitate the arduous task of validating burned area algorithms.