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Towards a whole-system framework for wildfire monitoring using Earth observations
Crowley, Stockdale, Johnston, Wulder, Liu, McCarty, Rieb, Cardille, White
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Reading the Tea Leaves: It’s Just Weird
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 4 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: An Overview of the Fuel Situation in California
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 3 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: Timing is Everything
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 2 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: The Second Great Reversal
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 1 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

A national map of snag hazard to reduce risk to wildland fire responders
Riley, O'Connor, Dunn, Haas, Stratton, Gannon
Falling trees and tree fragments are one of the top five causes of fatalities for wildland fire responders. In six out of ten recent years, at least one fatality from a tree strike has occurred while a fire responder was on duty, and others were…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Wild, tamed, and domesticated: three fire macroregimes for global pyrogeography in the Anthropocene
Pereira, Oom, Silva, Benali
Climate and natural vegetation dynamics are key drivers of global vegetation fire, but anthropogenic burning now prevails over vast areas of the planet. Fire regime classification and mapping may contribute towards improved understanding of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Nighttime smoke aerosol optical depth over U.S. rural areas: first retrieval from VIIRS moonlight observations
Zhou, Wang, Chen, Xu, Colarco, Miller, Reid, Kondragunta, Giles, Holben
An algorithm for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical depth (AOD) from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day-Night Band (DNB) observations of reflected moonlight is presented for rural areas during the western U.S. fire seasons.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Introducing Spatially Distributed Fire Danger from Earth Observations (FDEO) Using Satellite-Based Data in the Contiguous United States
Farahmand
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Wildfire danger assessment is essential for operational allocation of fire management resources; with longer lead prediction, the more efficiently can resources be allocated…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Global Wildfire Information System Country Profile
Boschetti, Roy
The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and…
Year: 2021
Type: Tool