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Monitoring Wildland Fire
Using Remote Sensing
The Fire Ecology Program is administering a grant from the Joint Fire Sciences Program to improve methods for estimating the area and severity of prescribed fires and wildfires using satellite remote sensing. The research is being conducted on the Apalachicola and Osceola National Forests by GIS Fire Analyst Joshua Picotte. Efforts are also being made to use this technology to estimate the acres burned on public lands in Florida and Georgia. Having an accurate measurement of burned acres is important for assessing achievement of management goals, identifying habitats at risk from fire suppression, and estimating particulate emissions from prescribed burning.
Prescribed fires on Tall Timbers Research Station detected using remote sensing. |
References:
Picotte, J. and K.M. Robertson. Validation of National Burn Severity Mapping techniques within the Apalachicola National Forest. [Presentation in PDF format].
Tall Timbers Research Notes:
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