Babeldaob Island wildfires (2012+): 2nd edition

This data publication contains wildfire locations as well as areas of repeated wildfires on Babeldaob Island, Palau. These data were digitized from a variety of sources: handheld global positioning system (GPS) fire perimeter mapping, aerial photo fire perimeter mapping, and satellite image fire perimeter mapping. In addition to 1) wildfire locations (2012-2023) and 2) the areas of repeated wildfires (2012-2021), also included for Babeldaob Island (dated 2021 unless otherwise noted) are: 3) streams composed from topographic maps, 4) roads (obtained from Palau Automated Land and Resource Information Service (PALARIS) and updated with 2015 imagery), 5) locations of terrestrial protected areas, 6) mangrove vegetation around the island, 7) Babeldaob Island state boundaries, and 8) Babeldaob coastline.
The purpose of this study was to summarize annual area and forest resources burned on Babeldaob Island, Palau.
The first edition of these data (Dendy et al. 2022; https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0039) was published on 04/07/2022 and included data from 2012-2021. This second edition, published on 02/01/2024, includes the addition of wildfire location data from 2022-2023. For more information about this study and these data, see Dendy et al. (2022; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5020045).