Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products
<p>Over the past 2 decades, several global burned area products have been produced and released to the public. However, the accuracy assessment of such products largely depends on the availability of reliable reference data that currently do not exist on a global scale or whose production requ...
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| author | M. Franquesa M. K. Vanderhoof D. Stavrakoudis I. Z. Gitas E. Roteta M. Padilla M. Padilla E. Chuvieco |
| author_facet | M. Franquesa M. K. Vanderhoof D. Stavrakoudis I. Z. Gitas E. Roteta M. Padilla M. Padilla E. Chuvieco |
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| description | <p>Over the past 2 decades, several global burned area
products have been produced and released to the public. However, the
accuracy assessment of such products largely depends on the availability of
reliable reference data that currently do not exist on a global scale or
whose production require a high level of dedication of project resources.
The important lack of reference data for the validation of burned area
products is addressed in this paper. We provide the Burned Area Reference Database (BARD), the first publicly available database created by compiling existing
reference BA (burned area) datasets from different international projects. BARD contains a
total of 2661 reference files derived from Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery.
All those files have been checked for internal quality and are freely
provided by the authors. To ensure database consistency, all files were
transformed to a common format and were properly documented by following
metadata standards. The goal of generating this database was to give
BA algorithm developers and product testers reference information that would
help them to develop or validate new BA products. BARD is freely available at
<a href="https://doi.org/10.21950/BBQQU7">https://doi.org/10.21950/BBQQU7</a> (Franquesa
et al., 2020).</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1fd605ce3bc4b1c9eeeb25fc26982212022-12-21T22:30:24ZengCopernicus PublicationsEarth System Science Data1866-35081866-35162020-12-01123229324610.5194/essd-12-3229-2020Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area productsM. Franquesa0M. K. Vanderhoof1D. Stavrakoudis2I. Z. Gitas3E. Roteta4M. Padilla5M. Padilla6E. Chuvieco7Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group, Department of Geology, Geography and the Environment, Universidad de Alcalá, Calle Colegios 2, Alcalá de Henares, 28801, SpainGeosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, P.O. Box 25046, DFC, MS980, Denver, CO 80225, United StatesLaboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 248, 54124 Thessaloniki, GreeceLaboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 248, 54124 Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, School of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Nieves Cano 12, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01006, SpainCentre for Landscape and Climate Research, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester LEI 17RH, United KingdomSpace Division, Starlab Barcelona, Avda. Tibidabo 47 bis, Barcelona, 08035, SpainEnvironmental Remote Sensing Research Group, Department of Geology, Geography and the Environment, Universidad de Alcalá, Calle Colegios 2, Alcalá de Henares, 28801, Spain<p>Over the past 2 decades, several global burned area products have been produced and released to the public. However, the accuracy assessment of such products largely depends on the availability of reliable reference data that currently do not exist on a global scale or whose production require a high level of dedication of project resources. The important lack of reference data for the validation of burned area products is addressed in this paper. We provide the Burned Area Reference Database (BARD), the first publicly available database created by compiling existing reference BA (burned area) datasets from different international projects. BARD contains a total of 2661 reference files derived from Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. All those files have been checked for internal quality and are freely provided by the authors. To ensure database consistency, all files were transformed to a common format and were properly documented by following metadata standards. The goal of generating this database was to give BA algorithm developers and product testers reference information that would help them to develop or validate new BA products. BARD is freely available at <a href="https://doi.org/10.21950/BBQQU7">https://doi.org/10.21950/BBQQU7</a> (Franquesa et al., 2020).</p>https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/3229/2020/essd-12-3229-2020.pdf |
| spellingShingle | M. Franquesa M. K. Vanderhoof D. Stavrakoudis I. Z. Gitas E. Roteta M. Padilla M. Padilla E. Chuvieco Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products Earth System Science Data |
| title | Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products |
| title_full | Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products |
| title_fullStr | Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products |
| title_short | Development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products |
| title_sort | development of a standard database of reference sites for validating global burned area products |
| url | https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/3229/2020/essd-12-3229-2020.pdf |
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