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    • BAER Soil Burn Severity Classification (Map Service)

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    This soil burn severity dataset is a compilation of all USFS BAER assessment data produced by the U.S. Forest Service in 2018. Each soil burn severity dataset was derived from satellite imagery, primarily Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2, and field validated by a Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team. It is based upon an initial Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC). The BARC is created by analyzing pre-fire and post-fire satellite scenes and then calculating a differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) image. The dNBR image attempts to portray the variation of burn severity within a fire and captures the combined effects of the fire to vegetation and soil components of the ecosytem. The preliminary BARC dataset was assessed by a Forest Service BAER team and modified, if necessary, based on field conditions. 

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date May 31, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 31, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2024-05-02
    Data Last Modified 2024-05-07
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 9aa8010c-2a61-4cc4-bcb7-28807dbf9e58
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/usfs::baer-soil-burn-severity-classification-map-service
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {{extent:computeSpatialProperty}}
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 277d0617466aa00a533fb572a3e2435606eb394045451aa9e02a6c0834ef124f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial

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