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Using fuzzy C-means and local autocorrelation to cluster satellite-inferred burn severity classes
Holden, Evans
Burn severity classifications derived from multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper images and the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) are commonly used to assess the post-fire ecological effects of wildfires. Ongoing efforts to retrospectively map historical…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest
Farris, Baisan, Falk, Yool, Swetnam
Fire scars are used widely to reconstruct historical fire regime parameters in forests around the world. Because fire scars provide incomplete records of past fire occurrence at discrete points in space, inferences must be made to reconstruct fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Linking stand attributes to cartographic information for ecosystem management purposes in the boreal forest of eastern Quebec
Cote, Bouchard, Pothier, Gauthier
In the North American boreal forest, the adoption of forest ecosystem management strategies usually increases the number of forest stands to be treated with irregular or uneven-aged silvicultural systems. However, it is difficult to properly target…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products
Giglio, Randerson, van der Werf, Kasibhatla, Collatz, Morton, Defries
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area
Holden, Morgan, Evans
We describe and then model satellite-inferred severe (stand-replacing) fire occurrence relative to topography (elevation, aspect, slope, solar radiation, Heat Load Index, wetness and measures of topographic ruggedness) using data from 114 fires…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest
Farris, Baisan, Falk, Yool, Swetnam
Fire scars are used widely to reconstruct historical fire regime parameters in forests around the world. Because fire scars provide incomplete records of past fire occurrence at discrete points in space, inferences must be made to reconstruct fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document