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Project ID: 01-1-4-12

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/17/2001

Date Completed: 10/12/2006

Title: Evaluate Sensitivities of Burn-Severity Mapping Algorithms for Different Ecosystems and Fire Histories in the United States

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal responds to Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Request for Proposals 2001-1, Task 4. Specifically, the proposed research is in direct response to JFSP statements that research is needed to "develop, apply, and validate improved remote sensing applications for quantifying ... fire effects such as fire distribution and severity", and "approaches must be validated by, and linked to, ground measurements." Objectives of this proposal also relate to 2001-2, addressing fire effects as an emergency response. We propose to validate Normalized Burn Ration (NBR), a bun-area mapping algorithm, for its robust and consistent performance under different conditions of ecosystems, fire histories and vegetation effects over time. The validation will be based on Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery and field data collected using Composite Burn Index (CBI), a field tool for bum-severity rating and correlating field data with TM burn maps. Both NBR and CBI have been developed in a general Northern Rockies ecosystem. Preliminary results show that the algorithms performed better and more consistently than other existing methods such as normalized difference of vegetation index.

Principal Investigator: Zhiliang L. Zhu

Agency/Organization: USGS-Geological Survey

Branch or Dept: National Center

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Carl H. Key	USGS-Geological Survey	CCME-Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems
Co-Principal Investigator	Donald Ohlen	USGS-Geological Survey	EROS Data Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Randy A. McKinley	USGS-Geological Survey	EROS Data Center
Federal Cooperator	Zhiliang L. Zhu	USGS-Geological Survey	National Center

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

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