HR: 16:25h
AN: G14A-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Derive Fire Data from Remote Sensing to Improve National Fire Hazard Predictive Capabilities
AU: * Zhu, Z
EM: zhu@usgs.gov
AF: USGS, USGS/EROS 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198
AU: Ohlen, D
EM: ohlen@usgs.gov
AF: SAIC/EROS, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198
AU: Vogelmann, J
EM: vogel@usgs.gov
AF: SAIC/EROS, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198
AU: Howard, S
EM: smhoward@usgs.gov
AF: SAIC/EROS, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198
AU: Rollins, M
EM: mrollins@fs.fed.us
AF: USFS, RMRS/MFSL 5775 Hwy 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808
AB: The Landsat series of satellites provide a unique source of data that are highly valued for fire applications such as mapping post-fire burn severity and monitoring immediate and long term impacts of wildland and prescribed fire, and mapping and modeling vegetation, fuels and risk distribution operationally. Although the sensors aboard the Landsat satellites have continually evolved over time in terms of imaging resolution and spectral bandwidths, they provide a continuous stream of highly comparable data that provide scientists with the capability to map and monitor fire risks and burned areas starting from 1972 to the present. Landsat data are being used to develop consistent landscape-scale maps of vegetation, fuel models, and ecosystem fire regime conditions of the entire United States. Historical and new Landsat data are also being used to map burn severity and assess post-fire effects and hazards. Research in these two areas indicates that the fire data derived will be able to provide key information to land managers in support of decision making related to questions such as where and how to prioritize fuel treatment projects to reduce fire hazards, where are the most severe fire risks to local communities, where to restore fire-dependent ecosystems, and how to enhance knowledge of local fire behavior to improve firefighting safety.
UR: http://landfire.gov/
DE: 0434 Data sets
DE: 0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics (4815)
DE: 0468 Natural hazards
SC: Geodesy [G]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005