The analysis on which the national RAVG regression equations are based is described in the following three papers:
- Miller, J. D., & Thode, A. E. (2007). Quantifying burn severity in a heterogeneous landscape with a relative version of the delta Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). Remote Sensing of Environment, 109(1), 66-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2006.12.006.
- Miller, J. D., Knapp, E. E., Key, C. H., Skinner, C. N., Isbell, C. J., Creasy, R. M., & Sherlock, J. W. (2009). Calibration and validation of the relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to three measures of fire severity in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, California, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(3), 645-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2008.11.009.
- Miller, J. D., & Quayle, B. (2015). Calibration and validation of immediate post-fire satellite-derived data to three severity metrics. Fire Ecology, 11(2), 12-30. https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.1102012.
The following article describes the southwest models:
- Reiner, A. L., Baker, C., Wahlberg, M., Rau, B. M., & Birch, J. D. (2022). Region-Specific Remote-Sensing Models for Predicting Burn Severity, Basal Area Change, and Canopy Cover Change following Fire in the Southwestern United States. Fire, 5(5), 137. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050137.