ECOSTRESS Land Surface Temperature for Four California Wildfires (2018-2021)

Land surface temperature data from the ECOSTRESS instrument for four California wildfires: Carr (2018), Kincade (2019), August Complex (2020), and Dixie (2021). The dataset includes identified hotspots and derived metrics like a rate-of-spread proxy and relationships between active-fire temperature and burn severity. It was created by Margarita Rivera and last updated on 2026-05-22.

Use Cases

• Analyzing fine-scale fire growth patterns based on 70-meter resolution land surface temperature observations.
• Estimating a satellite-derived rate-of-spread proxy based on the 95th percentile radial expansion from ignition points.
• Modeling relationships between mean active-fire temperature and mean post-fire burn severity (dNBR).
• Comparing wildfire behavior and thermal dynamics across different fire events and sizes.

Strengths

• Provides high-spatial-resolution thermal observations at 70 meters, which the description states can resolve fine-scale fire behavior.
• Includes analysis across four distinct California wildfires from 2018 to 2021, offering comparative case studies.
• Reports specific statistical findings, such as median hotspot temperatures ranging from 62 to 77°C and R² values for temperature-severity relationships from 0.51 to 0.88.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, file formats, and structure require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset size is listed as 0.0 B, indicating a potentially limited scope or that the primary data may be hosted elsewhere.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Margarita Rivera.

Collection Method

Data derived from ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) Level 2 land surface temperature observations.

Time Range

Covers the 2018 to 2021 period for the four specified fires.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 06:37:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focuses on four wildfire case studies in California, USA.