Forty-year fire history reconstruction from Landsat data in Mediterranean ecosystems of Algeria (1984–2023)

<p>We present the&nbsp;<strong>North Eastern ALGeria Burned Area (NEALGEBA)&nbsp;</strong>product&mdash;a high-resolution (30 m) BA dataset spanning 40 years (1984&ndash;2023) of fire history in typical Mediterranean Ecosystems of NE Algeria. Spatially explicit annual BA maps were systematically generated from Landsat collection 2 surface reflectance product (LC2SR) using the Burned Area Mapping Tools (BAMTs V1.7) (Roteta et al., 2021). This work is part of an urgent project to create a reliable and accurate country-level BA product for Algeria.<br><br><strong>Data files<br></strong>The NEALGEBA product is provided as 40 ESRI shapefile layers in the folder with the following attributes:</p> <ul> <li>Year: burn year in YYYY;</li> <li>BAMTs_date: burn detection date in MM/DD/YYYY, where DD is the day, MM is the month, and YYYY is the year. Note that this date is determined<br>based on the most frequently occurring date (the mode) for all pixels in each detected burned patch in the Landsat post-fire composite and does<br>not imperatively correspond to the effective date of burn;</li> <li>BA_ha: burned area in hectares;</li> <li>ADM_1: Wilaya (first-order administrative division);</li> <li>ADM_2: Baladiyah (second-order administrative division).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Geographical coverage</strong><br>Top: 37.088698&deg; N, Bottom: 36.218533&deg; N, Left: 3.717039&deg; E, Right: 8.683105&deg; E</p> <p><strong>Spatial reference system</strong><br>EPSG: 4326 (WGS 1984)</p>