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Table 1 Characteristics of areas burned in sagebrush steppe of the Great Basin, USA, that had sagebrush presence and cover measured at least once between 2011 and 2018 and were included in the spatially extensive or spatially intensive analyses that compared estimates of sagebrush from the remotely sensed NLCD (National Land Cover Database) model against benchmark field data. Points refer to field plots, which were the spatial basis of comparison to the NLCD model estimates. “Year monitored” refers to both NLCD and field sampling occurring in each noted year

From: Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires

Fire name

Burn year

Year monitored

Fire size (ha)

Points (n)

Spatially extensive analysis

 Castle Creek

1990

2011, 2016

4 452

14

 Indian Springs

1990

2014

7 303

5

 Buffalo

1995

2011, 2017

5 425

20

 Division

1996

2011

15 158

12

 Dun Glenn Complex Poker Brown

1999

2015

101 044

5

 Jungo Complex

2000

2014

36 336

4

 Charleston

2006

2015

66 385

15

 Murphy

2007

2015

252 794

5

Spatially intensive analysis

 Soda

2015

2016, 2018

110 069

1454