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+### Aiden I. G. Schore
+### Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+### [aschore2@illinois.edu](mailto:aschore2@illinois.edu)
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+This repository contains the code used in "Plant Functional types improve satellite-derived burn severity assessments in interior Alaska" to calculate
+the new Integrated Vegetation-Fire Severity Index (IntFire).
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+The R code compares satellite based burn indices with ground based burn severity measurements using linear and logarithmic regressions.
+The spreadsheets with the data used with the R code in the paper can be found at the [Arctic Data Center](https://doi.org/10.18739/A25H7BW3S).
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+'Fire Unmixing' is a copy of the [FireUnmixing](https://code.earthengine.google.com/88c730cdfb38c808b4ef791fd36d8ed7) Google Earth Engine script for the project. 
+Using the link is recommended over cloning the provided file.
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+After running the first two sections of the R code and the Google Earth Engine script, the final sections of the R code run validation of IntFire's performance.
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+Reference to be added upon publication of paper.