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Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Marsh
Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is resulting in increasingly large areas of tree mortality, removing the seed sources required for natural regeneration of historically conifer-dominated landscapes. Planting tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
de Almeida Pereira, Fusioka, Nassu, Minetto
Active fire detection in satellite imagery is of critical importance to the management of environmental conservation policies, supporting decision-making and law enforcement. This is a well established field, with many techniques being proposed over…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In…
Year: 2017
Type: Document