A Global Forest Burn Severity Dataset from Landsat Imagery (2003–2016)

Global Forest Burn Severity database provides information on the amounts of biomass that are consumed by wildfire between 2003 and 2016. Based on the Global Fire Atlas product, when and where forest fires occurred during that period are firstly determined and then overlay the available Landsat surface reflectance products to obtain pre-fire and post-fire normalized burn ratios (NBRs) for each burned pixel, designating the difference between pre-fire NBR and post-fire NBR as dNBR and the relative difference as RdNBR. The dNBR and RdNBR for each individual forest fire are saved as GeoTiff file.