A Comparative Analysis of Burned Area Datasets in Canadian Boreal Forest in 2000

Table 2

Mean and standard deviation of relative errors in BA estimations in all BA estimates for the year 2000, for Canada and the LAC region (fires larger than 5,000 ha).

	Entire Canada		Local Coverage subset
	μ	𝜎	μ	𝜎
MCD45A1	−82.66	21.51	−75.73	22.4
GBA2000	−16.3	41.57	3.92	38.49
L3JRC	−79.41	20.43	−78.47	18.00
BA-LAC	—	—	−34.04	28.14
BA-LTDR	−58.94	34.2	−35.48	28.54
BA-PAL	−86.89	17.67	−85.6	15.41