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Wildfires are one of the greatest threats to human infrastructure and the ecosystem services humans value in the western US, but are also necessary in fire-adapted ecosystems. Wildfire activity is widely projected to increase in response to climate change in the Northwest, but we currently lack a comprehensive understanding of what this increase will look like or what its impacts will be on a variety of ecological and hydrologic systems. This project addressed one critical part of those impacts: the islands of unburned vegetation within wildfires. Unburned islands occur naturally as wildfires burn across landscapes, and are important habitat refuges for species -- places where plants and animals survive the fire...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2014,
CASC,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Data Visualization & Tools, All tags...
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Fire,
Fire,
Fire,
Forests,
Forests,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest CASC,
Other Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Projects by Region,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
burn severity,
habitat,
wildfire, Fewer tags
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These data provide on the ground estimates of burn severity as estimated by the Composite Burn Index (CBI). Data were collected between 1996 and 2018 for fires that burned during this time period. Landsat imagery was used to develop regression relationships between the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and differenced NBR (dNBR).
Tags: Burn Severity,
Geography,
Land Use Change,
Remote Sensing,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
United States,
biota,
fire damage,
fires,
location,
remote sensing, Fewer tags
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