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Project ID: 01-1-4-14

Year: 2001

Date Started: 08/30/2001

Date Completed: 02/06/2006

Title: Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Postburn Vegetation Trends and Conditions

Project Proposal Abstract: For the past several decades, prescribed fire has proven to be a valuable tool for managing federal lands. It is an economical and efficient way to reduce accumulated fuel loads resulting from prolonged policies of suppressing wildfires, Prescribed fire helps to control the spread of some exotic species, increase vegetative diversity, and facilitate the regeneration of native grasses and forage for livestock and wildlife. For at least 45 years, natural resource managers have been employing prescribed fire as a range management tool in grassland/shrub ecosystems. Although generally effective for this application, more precise information is needed for comparing the actual response of the ecological landscape to the initial objectives set out in prescribed fire plans. We propose to apply several newly developed remote sensing techniques to accurately describe the temporal dynamics of vegetation community composition in a grassland/shrub ecosystem following prescribed fire treatments. The proposed work is new and innovative but based on a strong fundamental framework. To characterize the outcome of prescribed fires in more detail beyond vegetation classification, there is a need for more accurate geospatial information on vegetation. We seek to apply a recent advance in remote sensing technology, imaging spectroscopy, to estimate both the biomass and moisture content of vegetation canopies, specifically, grassland and shrub fuel types. We propose to develop this state-of-the-art information as input into fire behavior and fire danger rating models such as BEHAVE, FARSITE, and NFDRS.

Principal Investigator: Raymond Kokaly

Agency/Organization: USGS-Geological Survey

Branch or Dept: BRD-Water Science Center-CO

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Amanda G. McAdams	Forest Service	Dixie NF-Powell Ranger District
Co-Principal Investigator	Ralph R. Root	USGS-Geological Survey	Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center
Co-Principal Investigator	Melinda Walker	Forest Service	Region 2-Rocky Mountain Region
Collaborator/Contributor	Jenny Barnett	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Sheldon-Hart Mountain NWRC
Collaborator/Contributor	John Glenn	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Wyoming State Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Andrew Goheen	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Neal Smith NWR
Collaborator/Contributor	David Hammond	NPS-National Park Service	Intermountain Regional Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Russell Jackson	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	National Science & Technology Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Gretchen Meyer	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Wyoming State Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Ken Stinson	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Worland Field Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Jim Wolf	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Worland Field Office
Federal Cooperator	Susan Goodman	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	National Science & Technology Center

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