SFE Webinar: Mapping burned areas from the Landsat archive
*SFE Webinar: Mapping burned areas from the Landsat archive: A new way of monitoring of fire occurrence across the United States, and a southern example for fire management applications*
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A Southern Fire Exchange fire science webinar with Todd Hawbaker, Ph.D., from the US Geological Survey in Denver, CO and Casey Teske, Ph.D., from Tall Timbers Research Station in Tallahassee, FL
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Host Institutions: the Southern Fire Exchange, Tall Timbers Research Station, US Geological Survey, the Joint Fire Science Program, and the University of Florida.
Webinar Summary:
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Complete and accurate burned area data are needed to document patterns of fires, to quantify their drivers, and to assess the impacts on human and natural systems. Unfortunately, existing fire occurrence datasets are known to be incomplete. In response, we developed the Landsat Burned Area BA algorithm that identifies burned areas in dense time-series of Landsat data and used it to map burned areas across the conterminous United States. This presentation will describe the Landsat Burned Area algorithm and products. Additionally, applications using the burned area products will be covered. Tall Timbers staff are finalizing a statewide project to develop a spatial database of fire extent in Florida that will be integrated into further analyses specific to landscape conservation and monitoring. One of the outcomes of this database is to advance spatial data resolution and tracking of fire regimes in Florida. The extents of fires were derived using the Landsat Burned Area products. Spatial analyses characterizing fire history and fire regime metrics based on fires larger than 2.5 acres are currently in progress. Examples of fire management applications will be discussed. A Q/A session followed the webinar.
Originally recorded April 2019.
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Hosted By:
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David Godwin, Ph.D., Southern Fire Exchange
Links and Resources:
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https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/...
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/7/743
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov
Music: Ben Sound - Going Higher. Available at http://www.bensound.com.
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