Area burned by fire per SASAP region and Hydrolic Unit (HUC8) boundary for Alaskan watersheds

This dataset was created to assess the area burned in each SASAP region and each HUC8 watershed of Alaska. Twenty rasters with annual fire data from 1992 to 2011 were aggregated to create a binary index of 0 (not burned) and 1 (burned) pixels, producing a geospatial dataset of total land area burned over 20 years in Alaska. The original source of the rasters is "Lindgren, Michael, T. Kurkowski, A. Springsteen. Fire History - Area Burned - Annual. SNAP Data Archive. 2015. http://ckan.snap.uaf.edu/dataset/fire-history-area-burned-annual." This dataset was subset by two areas: 1) The region of Alaska (“sasap_regions.zip" shapefile, located here: https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#view/urn:uuid:2c1c26fc-bfb9-4b6a-8d4a-0be8e61c4deb) to create the shapefile, "regions_slope_shp.zip”, 2) watershed ("sasap_watersheds_gapfix.zip" shapefile, located here: https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#view/urn:uuid:2b5ab57e-38ec-4bc9-8290-f080ec0befb4) to create the shapefile "watersheds_slope_shp.zip". This package archives CSV and shapefile versions of the resulting datasets along with the Python script for the analysis.’