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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3061-2024
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© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
A global forest burn severity dataset from Landsat imagery (2003–2016)
Kang He
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Eversource Energy Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Xinyi Shen
School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Eversource Energy Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Drought effect on spectral response and burn assessments in tropical environments M. Vasquez Hernandez et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2026.105376
- Application of the BNDVI index as proxy for burn severity assessment G. Esposito & D. Famiani https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-025-01997-5
- The Western United States MTBS-Interagency database of large wildfires, 1984–2024 (WUMI2024a) A. Williams et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7359-2025
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- Inconsistency in assessments of fire frequency and severity dynamics across Canada’s boreal ecosystems Y. Fu et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111372
- Modelling and mapping burn severity of prescribed and wildfires across the southeastern United States (2000–2022) M. Vanderhoof et al. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24137
- Open Access to Burn Severity Data—A Web-Based Portal for Mainland Portugal P. Castro et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8030095
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- Bright: a globally distributed multimodal building damage assessment dataset with very-high-resolution for all-weather disaster response H. Chen et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6217-2025
- Global burn severity in forest ecoregions: trends, climate drivers, and predictive insights K. He et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-025-00113-3
- A survival guide for assessing global fire risks to natural and human systems C. Steinmann et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106140
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Short summary
Forest fire risk is expected to increase as fire weather and drought conditions intensify. To improve quantification of the intensity and extent of forest fire damage, we have developed a global forest burn severity (GFBS) database that provides burn severity spectral indices (dNBR and RdNBR) at a 30 m spatial resolution. This database could be more reliable than prior sources of information for future studies of forest burn severity on the global scale in a computationally cost-effective way.
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