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Project ID: 06-2-1-31

Year: 2006

Date Started: 07/07/2006

Date Completed: 09/11/2009

Title: Validation of National Burn Severity Mapping Project Techniques in Selected Southeastern US Ecosystems

Project Proposal Abstract: The overall objective of the proposed work is to improve the ability of land managers in the Coastal Plain to accurately quantify the burn area perimeter and burn severity of wildfires and prescribed burns. The approach will be to locally sample (within the ANF) common community types to determine relationships between TM imagery algorithms (NBR) and field-measured levels of burn severity (CBI). The specific goals are: 1) Evaluate the most appropriate thresholds of remotely-sensed data values that predict categories of burn severity (none, low, medium, high) in common southeastern community types by ground-truthing the remote data; 2) Determine the window of time post-fire that NBR can accurately determine burn area and the various levels of burn severity; 3) Provide EROS with the improved methodology for application in southeastern community types; 4) Train managers in the southeast on the use of the improved NBR product through a written report and regional workshop lead by NBSMP, MTBS, and Tall Timbers Research Station collaborators. The project duration will be three years, in order to install the necessary number of field plots, incorporate anticipated wildfires, and measure fires under a range of conditions.

Principal Investigator: Kevin M. Robertson

Agency/Organization: Tall Timbers Research Station

Branch or Dept:

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Kenneth Brewer	Forest Service	RSAC-Remote Sensing Applications Center
Co-Principal Investigator	Donald Ohlen	USGS-Geological Survey	EROS Data Center
Collaborator/Contributor	David J. Brownlie	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Region 4-Fire Management Field Office-Tallahassee
Collaborator/Contributor	Caroline L. Noble	NPS-National Park Service	Southeast Region
Federal Cooperator	Marsha Kearney	Forest Service	National Forests in FL-Supervisor's Office

Project Locations

Consortium

South

Level	State	Agency	Unit
STATE	FL	FS	Apalachicola National Forest
STATE	FL	FS	Osceola National Forest
STATE	GA	FWS	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

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.")

	ID	Type	Title
	7159	Invited Paper/Presentation	Validation of National Burn Severity Mapping Project Techniques Within the Apalachicola National Forest
	7797	Invited Paper/Presentation	North Florida Sandhill Working Group Presentation
	7795	Invited Paper/Presentation	Seven Hills Regional User Group (Shrug) Presentation
	7857	Invited Paper/Presentation	24th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference Presentation
	8141	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Validation of National Burn Severity Mapping Techniques Within the Apalachicola National Forest
	7798	Poster	Burn Monitoring Using Satellite Imagery in the Apalachicola National Forest Brochure
	7799	Poster	Satellite Mapping of Fire Perimeters and Severity Within the Apalachicola National Forest: Methods and Applications Poster

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