Myanmar Fire Susceptibility Map

<p><strong>Overview:</strong></p> <p>This dataset (shapefile) indicates fire susceptibility across Myanmar based on&nbsp;Figure 4 from Biswas et al. ^[1].</p> <p>The raw data for this figure was not available on request, so has been digitized for use in a research project. For reproducibility, the dataset is uploaded here.</p> <p>An overview image (png) of the digitized dataset can be viewed<strong> </strong><a href="https://i.imgur.com/X7zD9xQ.png">here</a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>without download.</p> <p>Given the relatively low-resolution image of Figure 4 held by <em>PLOS ONE&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;text labels covering data in some areas,&nbsp;a number of assumptions and approximations were required to populate the&nbsp;complete dataset.&nbsp;This involves a combination of automated&nbsp;and manual digitizing.</p> <p>Fire susceptibility is grouped into four classes: 1 (lowest), 2, 3, and 4 (highest). Biswas et al. ^[1] provide further descriptions of how the dataset was originally created and the assumptions behind defining these categories.</p> <p><strong>Details:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Shapefile (.shp)</li> <li>WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)</li> <li>6502 polygons,&nbsp; resolution of ~0.01&deg;</li> <li>attribute <em>fire_sus</em> indicates the fire susceptibility metric from 1-4</li> </ul> <p><strong>References:</strong></p> <p>^{[1]&nbsp;&nbsp;}Biswas, S., Vadrevu, K. P., Lwin, Z. M., Lasko, K., &amp; Justice, C. O. (2015). Factors controlling vegetation fires in protected and non-protected areas of Myanmar.&nbsp;<em>PLOS ONE</em>,&nbsp;<em>10</em>(4). DOI:&nbsp;<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124346">10.1371/journal.pone.0124346</a></p>