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The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile
Alejandro Miranda
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Conservación,
Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco,
Chile
Rayén Mentler
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Ítalo Moletto-Lobos
Image Processing Laboratory, Global Change Unit, University of
Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Gabriela Alfaro
Industrial Engineering Department, University of Chile, Santiago,
Chile
Leonardo Aliaga
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Dana Balbontín
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Maximiliano Barraza
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Susanne Baumbach
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Patricio Calderón
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Fernando Cárdenas
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Iván Castillo
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Gonzalo Contreras
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Felipe de la Barra
Industrial Engineering Department, University of Chile, Santiago,
Chile
Mauricio Galleguillos
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo
Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
Mauro E. González
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio, Facultad de
Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Austral de Chile,
Valdivia, Chile
Center for Fire and Socioecosystem Resilience (FireSES), Universidad
Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Carlos Hormazábal
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Antonio Lara
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio, Facultad de
Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Austral de Chile,
Valdivia, Chile
Fundación Centro de los Bosques Nativos FORECOS, Valdivia, Chile
Ian Mancilla
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Francisca Muñoz
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Cristian Oyarce
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Francisca Pantoja
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Rocío Ramírez
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
Vicente Urrutia
Center for Climate and Resilience Research, (CR), Santiago, Chile
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Achieving a local understanding of fire regimes requires high-resolution, systematic and dynamic data. High-quality information can help to transform evidence into decision-making. Taking advantage of big-data and remote sensing technics we developed a flexible workflow to reconstruct burned area and fire severity data for more than 8000 individual fires in Chile. The framework developed for the database can be applied anywhere in the world with minimal adaptation.
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