GIS Library Contents - Metadata MTBS Wildfires-Number of Times Burned 1984 to 2016

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Descriptive name		MTBS Wildfires-Number of Times Burned 1984 to 2016
File name		mtbsnumb
Spatial domain		Pima Cnty & Vicinity
Abstract		Number of times areas in Pima County and vicinity have burned between 1984 and 2016. This layer is derived from MTBSFIRE: the layer displaying burned area boundaries as delineated by the MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity) program. The original source burned area boundaries dataset is a vector polygon ESRI shapefile of the extent of the burned areas of all currently completed MTBS fires for the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is an interagency program whose goal is to consistently map the burn severity and extent of large fires across all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. This includes all fires 1000 acres or greater in the western United States and 500 acres or greater in the eastern United States. The extent of coverage includes the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The program is conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) and the USDA Forest Service Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC). MTBS Data Access: Fire Level Geospatial Data. (2017, July - last revised). MTBS Project (USDA Forest Service/U.S. Geological Survey). Available online: http://mtbs.gov/direct-download [2017, July12]. This layer was created as an additional baseline dataset for the MSCP's Landscape Pattern Monitoring process. -- See more information.
Known errors/qualifications
Feature type		polygon
Feature count		1,706
Thumbnail Map		mtbsnumb.pdf    (763,853 bytes, PDF created 07/20/2022 )
Projection		NAD83 HPGN (Parameters)
Rectification		unknown
Field/value metadata		Field metadata
Source organization		US Forest Service/USGS
Source contact
Source document or file name		mtbs_perimeter_data.zip
Source date		20181130
Source scale
Source format		Shape
Date of last data update (This date may not be current.)		20190628
Last data update by		Erik Glenn
Date/time last touched - Meaning?		2020-12-01  10:34 PM - Enterprise GDB - Back-level date-time by 24.32 hours
		2020-12-02  10:53 PM - Shapefile - Library input format
		See coverage files, if any, for date.
Lineage		20190628 - Utilized MTBSFIRE layer to calculate the number of times an area has burned, based on polygon overlaps (EG).
On maintenance?		No
Maintenance organization
Maintenance description
Original conversion by		Erik Glenn
Pima County ITD GIS contact		Erik Glenn
Alternate Pima County ITD GIS contact
On  Pima County Geospatial Data Portal?		No

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