[From text] The second EastFIRE Conference, held at George Mason University, June 5-8, 2007, brought together researchers, land managers, and technicians to share information on remote sensing applications to wildland fires in the eastern states. Based on the session chair’s suggestions, manuscripts were selected for this special section of the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS). After an extensive peer review, nine papers were accepted for publication for the EastFIRE special section, covering various aspects of remote sensing applications for wildland fires, including fuel moisture retrieval, fuel loading estimation, active fire detection, burned area assessment, and fire emission estimation.