Field and plot data for 2017-2018 wildland fires in the southwestern United States collected for Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire (RAVG) models: burn severity and stand characteristics

Research Data Publication File Index

File Folder Description
_metadata_RDS-2022-0018.html   Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2022-0018.xml   Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_Variable_Descriptions.csv \Data Comma-separated values (CSV) file containing the definitions for project data attributes for both field and photographic interpretation methods.
RAVG_V19.csv \Data CSV file containing data collected from both field plot and photographic interpretation methods.
RAVG_V19_field.csv \Data CSV file containing data collected from only field plot methods.
RAVG_V19_PI.csv \Data CSV file containing data collected from only photographic interpretation methods.
Fire_and_AerialPhoto_Dates.pdf \Supplements Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing a list of the fires (fire name, National Forest, and state), fire discovery date, dates of both the pre- and post-fire aerial photos, the number of photo interpretation (PI) plots, and the number of over-sampled (OS) plots.
Fire_and_FieldSampling_Dates.pdf \Supplements PDF file containing a list of the fires that were field sampled (fire name, National Forest, and state), fire ignition date, year of field data collection, and number of field plots sampled.
Fire_Location_Map.jpg \Supplements JPEG image file showing the location of the fires in Arizona and New Mexico that were chosen for sampling.