CanLaBS: Canada Landsat Burned Severity Data 1985-2015
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Description
A 30-year Canada-wide product provides Landsat-derived burned severity metrics for fire events from 1985 to 2015. It includes layers for NBR/dNBR indices, fire year, Julian day of fire, salvage logging presence, and pre-fire forest attributes at a 30-meter pixel resolution. The dataset was created by Natural Resources Canada and is derived from the Canada Landsat Disturbance (CanLaD) product.
Use Cases
Assessing fire severity and ecological impact based on dNBR and NBR indices.
Analyzing temporal patterns of wildfires based on corrected fire year and Julian day data.
Studying post-fire forest management practices based on salvage logging classification.
Modeling pre-fire forest conditions and their influence on burn severity.
Strengths
Covers all fire events in Canada over a 30-year period (1985-2015).
Provides data at a high spatial resolution of 30 meters per pixel.
Integrates corrected fire year data from multiple databases.
Limitations
The dataset is version v1; a newer version (CanLaBS v2) is available.
Julian day of fire variable is only available from 1989 onwards.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
Source
Natural Resources Canada
Collection Method
Derived from USGS Landsat scenes with surface reflectance correction and the Canada Landsat Disturbance (CanLaD) product.
Time Range
1985 to 2015
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-17 19:31:06.322575; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Canada
License is OGL-CA-2.0. Note that this is version v1; users are directed to a newer version (CanLaBS v2).