These Landsat 5 TM Collection 1 Tier 1 composites are made from Tier 1 orthorectified scenes, using the
computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance.
See Chander et al. (2009)
for details on the TOA computation.
The Burn Area Index (BAI) is generated from the Red and
Near-IR bands, and measures the spectral distance of each pixel from a
reference spectral point (the measured reflectance of charcoal). This
index is intended to emphasize the charcoal signal in post-fire
images. See
Chuvieco et al. (2002)
for details.
These composites are created from
all the scenes in
each annual period beginning from the first day of the year and
continuing to the last day of the year. All the images from each year
are included in the composite, with the most recent pixel as the composite value.
Bands
Bands
Name
Pixel Size
Description
BAI
30 meters
Burn Area Index
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
Landsat datasets are federally created data
and therefore reside in the public domain and may be used, transferred, or reproduced without copyright restriction.
Acknowledgement or credit of the USGS as data source should be provided
by including a line of text citation such as the example shown below.
(Product, Image, Photograph, or Dataset Name) courtesy of
the U.S. Geological Survey
Example: Landsat-7 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
These Landsat 5 TM Collection 1 Tier 1 composites are made from Tier 1 orthorectified scenes, using the computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance. See Chander et al. (2009) for details on the TOA computation. The Burn Area Index (BAI) is generated from the Red and Near-IR bands, and measures the spectral …
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],[],[[["This Landsat 5 TM dataset provides annual Burn Area Index (BAI) composites from 1984 to 2012."],["BAI measures the spectral distance of each pixel to charcoal, emphasizing post-fire areas."],["This dataset is deprecated; consider using the updated LANDSAT/COMPOSITES/C02/T1_L2_ANNUAL_BAI dataset instead."],["The dataset is composed of Tier 1 orthorectified scenes using top-of-atmosphere reflectance."],["Landsat data is public domain; however, USGS acknowledgement is requested when used."]]],["This dataset, available from 1984 to 2012, contains annual Burn Area Index (BAI) composites derived from Landsat 5 TM Collection 1 Tier 1 scenes. It utilizes top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance and calculates BAI from Red and Near-IR bands to highlight charcoal in post-fire images. Composites are created annually from all available scenes, using the most recent pixel value. The dataset, deprecated, is available via Earth Engine and provided by Google/USGS. Users should credit USGS as the data source. The dataset has been superseded by LANDSAT/COMPOSITES/C02/T1_L2_ANNUAL_BAI.\n"]]
