Overview
We proposed a rapid response team to collect fire effects data during and soon after ongoing fires. This three year project (2003-2, Task 1- Assessing the Causes, Consequences and Spatial Variability of Burn Severity: A Rapid Response Proposal) began with coordination with Fire Management Teams prior to the 2003 fire season and was followed by sampling in fall and summer of 2003 and 2004. Analysis of field data and technology transfer to share preliminary results and management recommendations also began in 2003. Manuscripts will be submitted in 2004 and 2005.
Some of our accomplishments to date are:
- Two papers have been accepted for publication in proceedings:
Hudak, A., P. Morgan, C. Stone, P. Robichaud, T. Jain and J. Clark. (2004) The relationship of field burn severity measures to satellite-derived Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, submitted.
Hudak, A., P. Robichaud, J. Evans, J. Clark, K. Lannom, P. Morgan and C. Stone. (2004) Field validation of Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) products for post fire assessment. Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, CD-ROM.
Stone, C., A. Hudak and P. Morgan. (2004) Forest Harvest can increase subsequent forest fire severity. International Symposium on Fire Economics, Policy and Planning: A Global Vision, submitted.
- We participated in two database design workshops held in July 2003 and March 2004 to coordinate data sharing between our rapid response project and the JFSP-funded projects being conducted by Mark Finney, and by Colin Hardy and Phil Riggan. The first had 18 participants, the second had 14.
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Presentations made on research results:
USFS Remote Sensing Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2004
ASPRS (American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2004.
International Symposium on Fire Economics, Policy and Planning: A Global Vision, Cordoba, Spain, April 2004
Fire Symposium, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, September 25, 2004
Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: Ecology and Management Conference,
Spokane, Nov. 2004
L. Lentile, S. Lewis, P. Morgan, P. Robichaud, A. Hudak, C. Stone, K. Ryan, E. Mathews, S. Hood, and H. Smith (2004). Rapid Response Research: Lessons from Assessing Burn Severity on Active Wildfires.pdf
L. Lentile, S. Lewis, A. Hudak, P. Morgan, P. Robichaud, C. Stone, and K. Ryan
(2004). Consequences and Spatial Variability of Burn Severity for Four 2003 Montana Wildfires.pdf
Association of American Geographers Meeting, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005
- We will also organize research and applications workshops for researchers and applications specialists from multiple federal agencies to synthesize and recommend methods for quantitative field measurement and remote sensing of burn severity. We will share our results with end users through training, on the FIREMON (http://www.fire.org/firemon/) and FRAMES (www.frames.gov) websites, and with the USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center staff to improve procedures for mapping fire effects. The resulting data for fire behavior and fire effects sampled from the same points during and after fires in the field and remotely will be shared publicly.
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