Publications and Related Links

Publications

• Quantifying burn severity in a heterogeneous landscape with a relative version of the delta Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) (PDF, 2.3 MB)
• Calibration and validation of the relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to three measures of fire severity in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, California, USA (PDF, 0.9 MB)
• Landscape Assessment (LA) Sampling and Analysis Methods (PDF, 31.3 MB)
• Comparison of burn severity assessments using Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio and ground data (PDF, 0.5 MB)
• Seasonal and topographic effects on estimating fire severity from Landsat TM/ETM+ data (PDF, 0.4 MB)
• BAER Soil Burn Severity Maps Do Not Measure Fire Effects to Vegetation: A Comment on Odion and Hanson (2006) (PDF, 0.7 MB)
• Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage (PDF, 0.8 MB)

Links

• Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project
• Forests and Rangelands
• Integrated Forest Resource Management System (INFORMS)
• Joint Fire Science Program
• LANDFIRE (Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project)
• National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVCS)
• Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC)
  • Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER)
  • MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program
  • Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS)
• Society of American Foresters
• Society for Range Management
• U.S. Forest Service Ecosystem Services
• U.S. Forest Service Forest Management
  • Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS)
• U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management
• U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region: The Threat of Deforested Conditions in California's National Forests