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Title: Field attributes and satellite indices for "The Relationship of Multispectral Satellite Imagery to Immediate Fire Effects"

Author: Hudak, Andrew T.

Date: 2010

Abstract: This data product contains satellite image-derived burn severity indices as well as fire effects measured after eight large wildfire events in the Western United States. Fire effects variables were measured or calculated at 418 plots, nested in 50 field sites, located across the full range of burn severities observed at the 2003 Black Mountain, Cooney Ridge, Robert, and Wedge Canyon wildfires in western Montana, the 2003 Old and Simi wildfires in southern California, and the 2004 Porcupine and Chicken wildfires in interior Alaska. Field attributes include a suite of vegetation, soil, and surface cover characteristics. Satellite indices include the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR), differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR), Relative dNBR (RdNBR), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), differenced NDVI (dNDVI), as well as green, brown and black fractional cover estimates derived from image spectral mixture analysis.

Key Words: burn severity, change detection, char, Landsat, normalized burn ratio, remote sensing, soils, spectral mixture analysis, vegetation, wildfire, Montana, California, Alaska

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Hudak, Andrew T. 2010. Field attributes and satellite indices for "The Relationship of Multispectral Satellite Imagery to Immediate Fire Effects" (2007, Fire Ecology 3(1): 64-90). [Online]. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/data_archive [2010, October 6].

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