Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019
The increasing availability of products generating burned area (BA) maps in recent years necessitates the creation of more accurate reference perimeters to validate these products and provide users with information about their accuracy. For this purpose, reference perimeters were created using Senti...
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| description | The increasing availability of products generating burned area (BA) maps in recent years necessitates the creation of more accurate reference perimeters to validate these products and provide users with information about their accuracy. For this purpose, reference perimeters were created using Sentinel-2 images in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the year 2019. The sampling was adapted to the peculiarities of the Sentinel-2 tiling grid system, and statistically representative sample units were selected for biomes and fire activity through stratified random sampling. Fire perimeters were extracted using a Random Forest supervised classification and results were manually supervised and refined. Efforts were made to maximize the temporal length covered by the reference perimeters for each sample, aiming to minimize temporal errors when using the perimeters for validation. The dataset covers 569,214.2 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">k</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (3.5% burned, 88.7% unburned, and 7.8% unobserved). These perimeters were compared with higher spatial resolution PlanetScope-derived perimeters, resulting in 8.4% commission errors and 3.8% omission errors. As a validation exercise, MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 global burned area products were validated using the Sentinel-2 reference dataset created, confirming that the temporal extent of the reference perimeters significantly affects the validation of such products. The reference fire perimeters are publicly available in the Burned Area Reference Database (BARD). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1ce4934ada44c439ac967e8973d1c9f2024-04-12T13:25:30ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922024-03-01167116610.3390/rs16071166Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019Jon Gonzalez-Ibarzabal0Magí Franquesa1Armando Rodriguez-Montellano2Aitor Bastarrika3Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, School of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Nieves Cano 12, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, SpainInstituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), 50059 Zaragoza, SpainFundación Amigos de la Naturaleza, Km. 7 1/2 Doble Vía a La Guardia, Santa Cruz 2241, BoliviaDepartment of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, School of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Nieves Cano 12, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, SpainThe increasing availability of products generating burned area (BA) maps in recent years necessitates the creation of more accurate reference perimeters to validate these products and provide users with information about their accuracy. For this purpose, reference perimeters were created using Sentinel-2 images in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the year 2019. The sampling was adapted to the peculiarities of the Sentinel-2 tiling grid system, and statistically representative sample units were selected for biomes and fire activity through stratified random sampling. Fire perimeters were extracted using a Random Forest supervised classification and results were manually supervised and refined. Efforts were made to maximize the temporal length covered by the reference perimeters for each sample, aiming to minimize temporal errors when using the perimeters for validation. The dataset covers 569,214.2 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">k</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (3.5% burned, 88.7% unburned, and 7.8% unobserved). These perimeters were compared with higher spatial resolution PlanetScope-derived perimeters, resulting in 8.4% commission errors and 3.8% omission errors. As a validation exercise, MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 global burned area products were validated using the Sentinel-2 reference dataset created, confirming that the temporal extent of the reference perimeters significantly affects the validation of such products. The reference fire perimeters are publicly available in the Burned Area Reference Database (BARD).https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/7/1166validationreference datasetburned area |
| spellingShingle | Jon Gonzalez-Ibarzabal Magí Franquesa Armando Rodriguez-Montellano Aitor Bastarrika Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019 Remote Sensing validation reference dataset burned area |
| title | Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019 |
| title_full | Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019 |
| title_fullStr | Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019 |
| title_short | Sentinel-2 Reference Fire Perimeters for the Assessment of Burned Area Products over Latin America and the Caribbean for the Year 2019 |
| title_sort | sentinel 2 reference fire perimeters for the assessment of burned area products over latin america and the caribbean for the year 2019 |
| topic | validation reference dataset burned area |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/7/1166 |
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