U.S. Forest Service

usda-fs-monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity

US Forest Service Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity

The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project maps the location, extent, and severity of all large fires in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico from 1984 to present. All documented fires greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. The project produces geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. MTBS is conducted through a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) and the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC).

http://www.mtbs.gov/nationalregional/pointdata.html

Also known as :

• identifier 960e11d4-4762-4beb-a0e1-aed0c82e03c2 (datagov lexicon)
• dataset us-forest-service-monitoring-trends-in-burn-severity (datagov lexicon)