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Landsat Burned Area Essential Climate Variable products for the conterminous United States (1984 - 2015)

Metadata Updated: October 29, 2025

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed and implemented an algorithm that identifies burned areas in temporally-dense time series of Landsat image stacks to produce the Landsat Burned Area Essential Climate Variable (BAECV) products. The algorithm makes use of predictors derived from individual Landsat scenes, lagged reference conditions, and change metrics between the scene and reference conditions. Outputs of the BAECV algorithm consist of pixel-level burn probabilities for each Landsat scene, and annual burn probability, burn classification, and burn date composites. These products were generated for the conterminous United States for 1984 through 2015. These data are also available for download at https://gsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/baecv/BAECV_CONUS_v1.1_2017/ Additional details about the algorithm used to generate these products are described in Hawbaker, T.J., Vanderhoof, M.K., Beal, Y.G., Takacs, J.D., Schmidt, G.L., Falgout, J.T., Williams, B., Brunner, N.M., Caldwell, M.K., Picotte, J.J., Howard, S.M., Stitt, S., and Dwyer, J.L., 2017. Mapping burned areas using dense time-series of Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment 198, 504522. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.027 First release: 2017 Revised: September 2017 (ver.1.1)

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 29, 2025

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Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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Metadata Updated Date October 29, 2025
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