HLS Burn Scar Scenes

This dataset contains Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery of burn scars and the associated masks for the years 2018-2021 over the contiguous United States. There are 804 512x512 scenes. Its primary purpose is for training geospatial machine learning models.


Each tiff file contains a 512x512 pixel tiff file. Scenes contain six bands, and masks have one band. For satellite scenes, each band has already been converted to reflectance.


Band Order

For scenes:

Channel, Name, HLS S30 Band number

1, Blue, B02

2, Green, B03

3, Red, B04

4, NIR, B8A

5, SW 1, B11

6, SW 2, B12


Masks are a single band with values:

1 = Burn scar

0 = Not burned

-1 = Missing data


Class Distribution

Burn Scar - 11%

Not burned - 88%

No Data - 1%


Data Splits

The 804 files have been randomly split into training (2/3) and validation (1/3) directories, each containing the masks, scenes, and index files.


Original dataset site can be found here.

Data and Resources

Field Value
creationMethod <p><span style="color: rgb(74, 85, 101);">After co-locating the shapefile and HLS scene, the 512x512 chip was formed by taking a window with the burn scar in the center. Burn scars near the edges of HLS tiles are offset from the center.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(74, 85, 101);">Images were manually filtered for cloud cover and missing data to provide as clean a scene as possible, and burn scar presence was also manually verified.</span></p>
dataType .tif
datasetPageUrl https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm-nasa-geospatial/hls_burn_scars
docsURL https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm-nasa-geospatial/hls_burn_scars
issueDate 2023-06-13
lastUpdateDate 2023-09-26
ndp_creator_md5 a77afdf4a7057716a8229d2d6a21805b
pocEmail pramonettivega@ucsd.edu
pocName Pedro Ramonetti
status submitted
uploadType dataset
Groups
  • NSF
  • United States
Tags
  • NSF
  • United States
  • burn-scars
  • hls
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metadata_created 2026-10-30T17:35:14.413778
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T17:35:14.413783
notes <p><span style="color: rgb(74, 85, 101);">This dataset contains Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery of burn scars and the associated masks for the years 2018-2021 over the contiguous United States. There are 804 512x512 scenes. Its primary purpose is for training geospatial machine learning models.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Each tiff file contains a 512x512 pixel tiff file. Scenes contain six bands, and masks have one band. For satellite scenes, each band has already been converted to reflectance.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Band Order</strong></p><p>For scenes: </p><p>Channel, Name, HLS S30 Band number</p><p>1, Blue, B02</p><p>2, Green, B03</p><p>3, Red, B04</p><p>4, NIR, B8A</p><p>5, SW 1, B11</p><p>6, SW 2, B12</p><p><br></p><p>Masks are a single band with values:</p><p>1 = Burn scar</p><p>0 = Not burned</p><p>-1 = Missing data</p><h2><br></h2><p><strong>Class Distribution</strong></p><p>Burn Scar - 11%</p><p>Not burned - 88%</p><p>No Data - 1%</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Data Splits</strong></p><p>The 804 files have been randomly split into training (2/3) and validation (1/3) directories, each containing the masks, scenes, and index files.</p><p><br></p><p>Original dataset site can be found <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm-nasa-geospatial/hls_burn_scars" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><u>here.</u></strong></a></p>
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title HLS Burn Scar Scenes