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Corrected Fire Perimeters of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1954
End Date
2022

Citation

Baughman, C.A., 2024, Corrected fire perimeters of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P143UCFQ.

Summary

This data package includes 481 geospatial vector polygons of historic fire perimeters associated with National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. These polygons, originally held within the Alaska Large Fire Database (ALFD), were reviewed and found to have geospatial inaccuracies with respect to the fire they represent. They were corrected and updated based on a variety of remote sensing resources; the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) database (https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html), geospatial rasters of historic fire activity derived from Landsat 1-9 imagery in the Google Earth Engine(https://earthengine.google.com) environment, and historical air photos acquired through EarthExplorer (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/). Wildfire [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
Carson A Baughman
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Improved Fire History Through Retroactive Analysis Of Fire Events In Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuges.pdf 733.53 KB application/pdf
wildfirePerimeters_alaskaNWRs_reportAppendix1.csv 48.22 KB text/csv
wildfirePerimeters_alaskaNWRs_reportAppendix2.csv 42.8 KB text/csv
wildfirePerimeters_alaskaNWRs_GEEscripts.zip 8.28 KB application/zip
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wildfirePerimeters_alaskaNWRs_corrected_USGS.gdb.zip 1.97 MB application/zip
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Purpose

These data were created as part of an effort to systematically review and objectively correct (as needed) fire perimeters associated with the National Wildlife Refuge system in Alaska. Fire events in Alaska have been geospatially archived for over 70 years, employing numerous and ever-changing technological resources. A result of this process is fire perimeters are sometimes recorded with inaccurate perimeters. In an effort to reduce some of the inaccuracies of existing fire history polygons, we developed a process for identifying and updating perimeters as well as recording previously undocumented wildfire events that escaped detection or documentation.

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