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Title:
Unburned areas within fire perimeters across the inland northwestern USA from 1984 to 2014 Data publication contains GIS data
Author(s):
Meddens, Arjan J.H.
Publication Year:
2017
How to Cite:
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Meddens, Arjan J.H. 2017. Unburned areas within fire perimeters across the Inland northwestern USA from 1984 to 2014. USGS ScienceBase. https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/59a7452ce4b0fd9b77cf6ca0

Meddens, Arjan J.H.; Kolden, Crystal A.; Lutz, James A.; Abatzoglou, John T.; Hudak, Andrew T. 2018. Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014. Ecosphere 9(2): e02029. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2029
Abstract:
We established a Landsat-derived geospatial database of unburned islands within 2,298 fires across the Inland Northwestern US (including eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Idaho) from 1984-2014. The detection of unburned areas within these fires is based upon a classification tree approach that uses two pre- and post-fire Landsat image pairs (see Meddens et al. 2016 for details). The data set consist of unburned patches within each fire that are two pixels or larger. This database will be useful for identifying fire refugia, seed sources, and can be used as an overall metric of fire impacts across the northwestern US.

Keywords:
geoscientificInformation; environment; image collections; multispectral imaging; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Ecology; Idaho; Washington; Oregon
Related publications:
  • Meddens, Arjan J.H.; Kolden, Crystal A.; Lutz, James A. 2016. Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment. 186: 275-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.08.023
  • Meddens, Arjan J.H.; Kolden, Crystal A.; Lutz, James A.; Abatzoglou, John T.; Hudak, Andrew T. 2018. Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014. Ecosphere. 9(2): e02029. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2029
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