To accompany manuscript "Leveraging additional VIIRS information to improve wildfire tracking in the western US", submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment, November 2025
Input Datasets:
- VIIRS via LAADS DAAC https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/search/
- NLCD land cover https://www.mrlc.gov/data/nlcd-2019-land-cover-conus
- MASTER 2019 https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1941
- NIFC https://ftp.wildfire.gov/
- FEDS fire perimeters https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5601537.v1 ; API: https://nasa-impact.github.io/veda-docs/notebooks/tutorials/mapping-fires.html
Output dataset: File of 874k known and candidate fire detections from two VIIRS sensors for the 95 large (>25 km2) wildfires in the western US in 2020. Candidate fires denoted as "confidence"="x" and fire_mask < 7. Links to geoparquet and csv files archived via University of Maryland DRUM: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/34941