Burned areas for the conterminous U.S. from 1984 through 2015, an automated approach using dense time-series of Landsat data

Todd J Hawbaker1, Melanie Vanderhoof2, Yen-Ju G. Beal3, Josh D Takacs3, Gail Schmidt4, Jeff Falgout5, Nicole M. Brunner3,6, Megan Kathleen Caldwell3,6, Joshua J Picotte7, Stephen M Howard8, Susan Stitt3 and John L Dwyer9, (1)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, CO, United States, (4)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Core Science, Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries, Lakewood, United States, (6)USGS-GECSC, Lakewood, CO, United States, (7)ASRC Federal Data Solutions, Contractor to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (8)USGS EROS Data Ctr, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (9)U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center, Department of the Interior, Sioux Falls, SD, United States