Announcement
MTBS Data Explorer (December 16, 2020)
MTBS is pleased to announce the release of the MTBS Data Explorer. The MDE is a GEE-based application that enables users to easily explo
MTBS Data Release (November 24, 2020)
MTBS has released the remaining 716 fire mappings for 2018, bringing the total release for 2018 fires to 1,129.
Publication of new MTBS paper (June 25, 2020)
On June 25, 2020, the "Changes to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program mapping production procedures and data products" paper was released in the journal Fire Ecology (https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-020-00076-y). This paper describes how the MTBS program's burned area and burn severity mapping methods have changed through time, and how these changes subsequently affect
Change in Multipart Features in Burned Areas Boundaries Dataset (May 7, 2019)
Prior to the MTBS.gov website update in Summer 2017, this dataset had multipart features displaying a separate record for each polygon (i.e., multipart features exploded). In the current version of the website, multipart features in the attribute table have been modified to reflect a one-to-one relationship to the number of published fires (i.e., multipart features unexploded). Therefore, the number of records in the attribute table is reduced and accounts for the discrepancy in the number of records between the two versions.
FMT now available for QGIS 3.x (February 20, 2019)
The MTBS project has released a new version of the QGIS Fire Mapping Tool (FMT). The FMT is now compatible with QGIS
New Online Tool (September 19, 2018)
The MTBS project has released the NDVI Profile Tool. This interactive web application gives users the ability to display a multi-temporal NDVI profile that is spatially averaged by a user-defined Landsat Path/Row and categorized by land cover type.