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Amidst the increasing frequency and severity of forest fires globally, the imperative of effective post-fire forest restoration has gained unprecedented significance. This study outlines a comprehensive approach to post-fire forest restoration and…
Author(s): Rahaf Ahmad Alayan, Zoltán Lakner
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Context In western US forests, the increasing frequency of large high-severity fires presents challenges for society. Quantifying how fuel conditions influence high-severity area is important for managing risks of large high-severity fires and…
Author(s): Emily J. Francis, Pariya Pourmohammadi, Zachary L. Steel, Brandon M. Collins, Matthew D. Hurteau
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Burn severity is commonly assessed using Burn Ratios and field measurements to provide land managers with estimates of the degree of burning in an area. However, less commonly studied is the ability of spectral indices and Burn Ratios to estimate…
Author(s): David M. Szpakowski, Jennifer L. Rooker Jensen, T. Edwin Chow, David R. Butler
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Background: The models currently used to predict post-fire soil erosion risks are limited by high data demands and long computation times. An alternative is to map the potential hydrological and sediment connectivity using indices to express the…
Author(s): Joana Parente, João Pedro Nunes, J. E. M. Baartman, Dante Follmi
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Patterns of spatial heterogeneity in forests and other fire-prone ecosystems are increasingly recognized as critical for predicting fire behavior and subsequent fire effects. Given the difficulty in sampling continuous spatial patterns across scales…
Author(s): Chad M. Hoffman, Justin P. Ziegler, Wade T. Tinkham, J. Kevin Hiers, Andrew T. Hudak
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Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and…
Author(s): Amanda T. Stahl, Robert A. Andrus, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Arjan J. H. Meddens
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Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for…
Author(s): Morgan A. Crowley, Christopher A. Stockdale, Joshua M. Johnston, Michael A. Wulder, Tianjia Liu, Jessica L. McCarty, Jesse T. Rieb, Jeffrey A. Cardille, Joanne C. White
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Numerous hectares of land are destroyed by wildfires every year, causing harm to the environment, the economy, and the ecology. More than fifty million acres have burned in several states as a result of recent forest fires in the Western United…
Author(s): Doaa Rjoub, Ahmad Alsharoa, Ala’eddin Masadeh
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Combustibles, topography, and weather factors are the three essential factors affecting forest fire behavior, and current forest fire spread models need to consider weather factors fully. This paper proposes a forest fire spread method based on…
Author(s): Qingkuo Meng, Yongjian Huai, Jiawei You, Xiaoying Nie
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Accurate assessment of burn severity is a critical need for an improved understanding of fire behavior and ecology and effective post-fire management. Although NASA Landsat satellites have a long history of use for remotely sensed mapping of burn…
Author(s): Alexander A. Howe, Sean A. Parks, Brian J. Harvey, Saba Saberi, James A. Lutz, Larissa L. Yocom
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Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) are providing fresh perspectives for the remote sensing of fire. One opportunity is mapping tree crown scorch following fires, which can support science and management. This proof-of-concept shows that crown…
Author(s): Christopher J. Moran, Valentijn Hoff, Russell A. Parsons, Lloyd P. Queen, Carl A. Seielstad
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Ecological resilience is the capacity of a system to maintain function following disturbance. With the frequency and severity of wildfire activity increasing due to warmer and drier global climate conditions, there are increasing reports of declines…
Author(s): Rebecca K. Gibson, Laura White, Samuel Hislop, Rachael H. Nolan, Josh Dorrough
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Remote sensing techniques are of particular interest for monitoring wildfire effects on soil properties, which may be highly context-dependent in large and heterogeneous burned landscapes. Despite the physical sense of synthetic aperture radar (SAR…
Author(s): José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga, Elena Marcos, Susana Suárez-Seoane, Leonor Calvo
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Fire is a natural phenomenon that has played a critical role in transforming the environment and maintaining biodiversity at a global scale. However, the plants in some habitats have not developed strategies for recovery from fire or have not…
Author(s): Fatima Arrogante-Funes, Inmaculada Aguado, Emilio Chuvieco
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Climate and natural vegetation dynamics are key drivers of global vegetation fire, but anthropogenic burning now prevails over vast areas of the planet. Fire regime classification and mapping may contribute towards improved understanding of…
Author(s): Jose M. C. Pereira, Duarte Oom, Pedro C. Silva, Akli Benali
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The increasing wildfire activity and rapid population growth in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) have made more Americans exposed to wildfire risk. WUI mapping plays a significant role in wildfire management. This study used the Microsoft building…
Author(s): Alexander R. Ketchpaw, Dapeng Li, Shahid N. Khan, Yuhan Jiang, Yingru Li, Ling Zhang
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Spatial wildfire ignition predictions are needed to ensure efficient and effective wildfire response, and robust methods for modeling new wildfire occurrences are ever-emerging. Here, ignition locations of natural and human-caused wildfires across…
Author(s): Adrian Jimenez-Ruano, William Matt Jolly, Patrick H. Freeborn, Daniel J. Vega-Nieva, Norma A. Monjaras-Vega, Carlos I. Briones-Herrera, Marcos Rodrigues
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There are thousands of communities and millions of homes in fire-prone wildland–urban interface (WUI) environments. Although future developments may be sited and designed to be more survivable and resistant to losses, an over-arching strategy is…
Author(s): Max A. Moritz, Rob Hazard, Kelly Johnston, Marc Mayes, Molly Mowery, Katie Oran, Anne-Marie L. Parkinson, David A. Schmidt, Graham Wesolowski
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The boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e., covering the USA, Canada and Russia) are the grandest carbon sinks of the world. A significant increase in wildfires could cause disequilibrium in the Northern boreal forest’s capacity as a carbon…
Author(s): Victor M. Velasco Hererra, Willie Soon, César Pérez-Moreno, Graciela Velasco Herrera, Raúl Martell-Dubois, Laura Rosique-de la Cruz, Valery M. Fedorov, Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada, Eric Bongelli, Emmanuel Zúñiga
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Anticipating fire behavior as climate change and fire activity accelerate is an increasingly pressing management challenge in fire-prone landscapes. In subalpine forests adapted to infrequent, stand-replacing fire, self-limitation of burn severity…
Author(s): Kristin H. Braziunas, Diane Abendroth, Monica G. Turner
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