Resource Catalog
Data
- Andrew T. HudakUS Forest Service, Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory
An objective of the Assessing Burn Severity project was to form a spectral library of endmembers of the major surface component materials encountered on the wildfires sampled in western Montana and eastern Washington mixed conifer forest, southern California chaparral, and interior Alaska spruce forest. In interior Alaska spruce forest, spectral endmembers have been further organized into functional groups:
- green (photosynthetic) vegetation
- non-photosynthetic vegetation
- soil and/or rock
- char and/or ash spectra
A digital photo of the endmember material, a graph of the endmember spectrum, and a downloadable ASCII file of the actual spectrum is provided. Users are encouraged to download these endmember spectra for spectral mixture analysis of imagery within these regions, both for burn severity or other applications.
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Cataloging Information
- burn severity
- Picea glauca
- Picea mariana
- SMA - spectral mixture analysis