Field attributes and satellite data for "How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems"

Metadata:
Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Originator: Smith, April G.
Originator: Hammond, Darcy H.
Originator: Dodge, Jessie M.
Originator: Bontrager, Jonathan
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Field attributes and satellite data for "How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems"
Edition: 1st
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: Forest Service Research Data Archive
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0005
Description:
Abstract:
This data publication contains field and satellite observations at 1567 plots across wildfire extents that burned between the years 2000-2007, collected for Joint Fire Science Project ID: 14-1-02-27. Field attributes were measured between the years 2013-2016 and include a suite of vegetation, soil, and surface cover characteristics. Satellite observations include differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) measurements from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), as well as annual (1984-2016) satellite observations of the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) derived from the Landsat-based detection of Trends in Disturbance and Recovery (LandTrendr) algorithm. Previously burned areas included the extents of the 2000 Jasper wildfire in western South Dakota; 2002 Hayman wildfire in central Colorado; 2003 Black Mountain, Cooney Ridge, Robert, and Wedge Canyon wildfires in western Montana; 2003 Old and Simi wildfires in southern California; 2003 Myrtle Creek wildfire in northern Idaho; 2004 Porcupine, Chicken, and Wall Street wildfires in interior Alaska; 2005 School wildfire in eastern Washington; 2005 Ricco wildfire in South Dakota; 2006 Shake Table or Thorn Creek wildfire in central Oregon; 2006 Tripod wildfire complex in north-central Washington; 2007 Egley wildfire in central Oregon; and the 2007 East Zone/Cascade wildfire complex in central Idaho. Field attributes had been measured previously at many of these locations; Hudak (2010) contains previous field attribute data for some of the Montana, California, and Alaska plots; and Hudak (2013) contains previous field attribute data for some of the Idaho plots. Bright et al. (2019: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0015) contains previous field attribute data for most of the Oregon plots. Also included is R code that can merge these data with Hudak (2010, 2013) and Bright et al. (2019: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0015).
Purpose:
The objective was to assess long-term post-fire vegetation recovery and fuels with field observations and satellite remote sensing.
Supplemental_Information:
A second edition of these data is now available and we recommend use of that version (Bright et al. 2019: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0005-2) because it includes some minor data corrections (basal area was calculated incorrectly for some variable-radius plots) and the addition of tree-level data.

This first edition was originally published on 03/20/2019 with metadata updates on 12/09/2019 that included references to newly available journal articles that use these data and links to the second edition of these data.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20130501
Ending_Date: 20160808
Currentness_Reference:
Ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
These data were measured in the western United States: Montana, California, Colorado, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -142.67000
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -103.42000
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 64.09000
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.27000
Bounding_Altitudes:
Altitude_Minimum: 490.000
Altitude_Maximum: 2868.000
Altitude_Distance_Units: meters
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: biota
Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: National Research & Development Taxonomy
Theme_Keyword: Fire
Theme_Keyword: Fire effects on environment
Theme_Keyword: Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis
Theme_Keyword: Assessments
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: burn severity
Theme_Keyword: change detection
Theme_Keyword: char
Theme_Keyword: Landsat
Theme_Keyword: time series
Theme_Keyword: normalized burn ratio
Theme_Keyword: remote sensing
Theme_Keyword: soils
Theme_Keyword: wildfire
Theme_Keyword: Joint Fire Science Program
Theme_Keyword: JFSP
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Alaska
Place_Keyword: California
Place_Keyword: Colorado
Place_Keyword: Idaho
Place_Keyword: Montana
Place_Keyword: Oregon
Place_Keyword: South Dakota
Place_Keyword: Washington
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation:

Bright, Benjamin C.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Strand, Eva K.; Newingham, Beth A.; Smith, April G.; Hammond, Darcy H.; Dodge, Jessie M.; Bontrager, Jonathan. 2019. Field attributes and satellite data for "How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems". 1st Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0005
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Andrew T. Hudak
Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Contact_Position: Research Forester
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 1221 South Main Street
City: Moscow
State_or_Province: ID
Postal_Code: 83843
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-883-2327
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: andrew.hudak@usda.gov
Data_Set_Credit:
Funding for this project provided by Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP # 14-1-02-27): https://www.firescience.gov. Funding also provided by USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Originator: Smith, April G.
Originator: Hammond, Darcy H.
Originator: Dodge, Jessie M.
Originator: Bontrager, Jonathan
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Field attributes and satellite data for "How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems"
Edition: 2nd
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: Forest Service Research Data Archive
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0005-2
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Publication_Date: Unpublished material
Title:
How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Joint Fire Science Final Report
Issue_Identification: Project ID: 14-1-02-27
Other_Citation_Details:
July 2018 (document also included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: https://www.firescience.gov/projects/14-1-02-27/project/14-1-02-27_final_report.pdf
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Publication_Date: 2010
Title:
Field attributes and satellite indices for "The Relationship of Multispectral Satellite Imagery to Immediate Fire Effects"
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Other_Citation_Details:
Updated 25 February 2019
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2010-0014
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Publication_Date: 2013
Title:
Field plot measures and fuel treatment units used to assess the effectiveness of (WUI) fuel treatments burned through by the 2007 East Zone and Cascade megafires in central Idaho
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector and tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Other_Citation_Details:
Updated 15 March 2019
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0005
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Dodge, Jessie M.
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Post-fire field observations across the 2007 Egley Fire in central Oregon
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: Forest Service Research data Archive
Other_Citation_Details:
Updated 04 November 2019
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0015
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Lewis, Sarah A.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Robichaud, Peter R.
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Originator: Satterberg, Kevin L.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Smith, Alistair M. S.
Originator: Zamudio, Joseph A.
Originator: Lentile, Leigh B.
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:
Indicators of burn severity at extended temporal scales: a decade of ecosystem response in mixed-conifer forests of western Montana
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Issue_Identification: 26(9): 755-771
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17019
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Smith, April G.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Got shrubs? Precipitation mediates long-term shrub and introduced grass dynamics in chaparral communities after fire
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 15: 12
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0031-2
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Bontrager, Jonathan D.
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Robichaud, Peter R.
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Long-term vegetation response following post-fire straw mulching
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 15: 22
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0037-9
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Satterberg, Kevin L.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Byrne, John
Originator: Khalyani, Azad Henareh
Originator: Smith, Alistair M. S.
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Does burn severity affect plant community diversity and composition in mixed conifer forests of the United States Intermountain West one decade post fire?
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 15: 25
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0038-8
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hammond, Darcy H.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Boreal forest vegetation and fuel conditions 12 years after the 2004 Taylor Complex fires in Alaska, USA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 15: 32
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0049-5
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Dodge, Jessie M.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Originator: Hammond, Darcy H.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Short- and long-term effects of ponderosa pine fuel treatments intersected by the Egley Fire Complex, Oregon, USA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 15: 40
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0055-7
Analytical_Tool:
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R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
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Tool_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: R Core Team
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing
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Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Vienna, Austria
Publisher: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Online_Linkage: https://www.R-project.org
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Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Field observations were gathered by various trained field personnel. Data have been used in several analyses that revealed some inaccuracies, which have been corrected in this data publication. Likewise, extracted satellite data have been reviewed for possible errors. Plot locations were acquired using resource-grade GNSS receivers that logged a minimum of 150 points; estimated location accuracies are given in meters in ‘VERT_PREC’ and ‘HORZ_PREC’ attributes.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The field data were transferred from hard copy to digital format by two separate data entry persons, so that discrepancies could be flagged and compared to the original data. Spreadsheet functions were used to check the data for logical errors at the time of recording.
Completeness_Report:
If missing data could not be deduced from plot photos or other recorded field observations, they were given ‘NA’ values. Vertical and horizontal position accuracies were unavailable at some plots. ‘NA’ values were also assigned when data were not recorded: Tall shrub cover and 1000-hour fuels were only recorded at ‘A’ subplots, and were not recorded at all plots. Fuel variables and tree variables (including overstory, saplings, and seedling variables) were not recorded at many plots. Landsat time series data were not produced for Alaska. Site 1 in Wedge Canyon, Montana, was previously measured in 2002, but not was measured in 2013 with the rest of the Wedge Canyon sites. Atypical plots include a ‘G’ plot at Cooney Ridge Site 3 in Montana, which was an additional pre-fire fuel plot, and Porcupine Site 3 in Alaska, which was a single plot in close proximity to Site 2.
Lineage:
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Field
Methodology_Description:
SAMPLING DESIGN:

There were eight states where wildfires were sampled, listed chronologically in the order of sampling, with burn year shown in parentheses.

2013-15: Montana (2003): Black Mountain 2, Cooney Ridge, Robert and Wedge Canyon
2015: California (2003): Simi, Old/Grand Prix
2015: Colorado (2002): Hayman
2015: South Dakota (2000): Jasper
2015: Washington (2005): School
2016: Oregon (2007): Egley
2016: Idaho (2007): Cascade, East Zone
2016: Alaska (2004): Porcupine, Chicken, Wall Street

Field site selection was based on a stratified random sampling design based on elevation, aspect (transformed), and one-year post-fire dNBR burn severity as classified by MTBS. As proposed, we conducted each stratification by vegetation type within a specific geographic locale, and not necessarily by each individual wildfire. In other words, two wildfires burning in close proximity within the same vegetation type were treated (in terms of sampling) as a single wildfire event. We exploited the opportunity to re-measure old field sites established in past rapid response research projects, provided we could safely access them. Old field sites partially populated our landscape stratifications; to fully populate the strata, new field sites were subsequently added at random locations yet close enough to navigable roads to permit practical access. In the summer 2015 field season, we began adding unburned sites to our stratification and sampling.


FIELD ATTRIBUTES:

Understory cover variables and richness, as well as 1-, 10-, and 100-hour fuels were recorded in square, 1-square meter (m2) plots. 1000-hr fuels were estimated within circular 1/50th hectare (ha) fixed-radius plots. On ‘A’ subplots, tree basal area was measured for trees with diameter at breast heights (DBH, 1.37 meters [m]) of ≥ 10 centimeters (cm) on circular 1/50th ha fixed-radius plots; on all other subplots (B, D, F, H), tree basal area was measured on variable radius plots using a prism with a basal area factor of two m2 per ha. Seedling and sampling counts, later converted to seedling densities, were taken on one to four quadrants of circular 1/100th ha plots in most cases, except on many Montana plots, where counts were done on variable-area belt transects. Saplings were defined as being taller than DBH with DBH measurements of < 10 cm; trees > DBH in height were considered seedlings. See the associated field sampling protocol document (\Supplements\BurnSev_remeas_field_sampling_protocol_v7.pdf; included in the full data publication download) for more details.

SATELLITE DATA:

Annual NBR data were derived from the LandTrendr spectral-temporal algorithm (Kennedy et al. 2010), implemented in Google Earth Engine (Gorelick et al. 2017, Kennedy et al. 2018). LandTrendr identifies and fits straight-line segments, pixel by pixel, to stacks of Landsat surface reflectance images, so that low-level noise in pixel time series is reduced and trends are more apparent. For this project NBR was used for segmentation and fitting. For more LandTrendr processing details, see Bright et al. (2019: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0021-9). Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (DNBR) values, indicators of burn severity, were extracted from DNBR rasters produced by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program (Eidenshink et al. 2007).

MERGE WITH OTHER DATA:

For the R code to merge these data with Hudak (2010, 2013) and Bright et al. (2019: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0015) see: \Supplements\R_code_to_merge_data.txt.


See Hudak et al. JFSP final report (2018; included in the full data publication download) for more details regarding these data.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Newingham, Beth A.
Originator: Strand, Eva K.
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Publication_Date: Unpublished material
Title:
How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Joint Fire Science Final Report
Issue_Identification: Project ID: 14-1-02-27
Other_Citation_Details:
July 2018 (document also included in full data publication download)
Online_Linkage: https://www.firescience.gov/projects/14-1-02-27/project/14-1-02-27_final_report.pdf
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Kennedy, Robert E.
Originator: Yang, Zhiqiang
Originator: Cohen, Warren B.
Publication_Date: 2010
Title:
Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 1. LandTrendr – Temporal segmentation algorithms
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Remote Sensing of Environment
Issue_Identification: 114(12): 2897-2910
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2010.07.008
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Gorelick, Noel
Originator: Hancher, Matt
Originator: Dixon, Mike
Originator: Ilyushchenko, Simon
Originator: Thau, David
Originator: Moore, Rebecca
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:
Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Remote Sensing of Environment
Issue_Identification: 202: 18-27
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Kennedy, Robert E.
Originator: Yang, Zhiqiang
Originator: Gorelick, Noel
Originator: Braaten, Justin
Originator: Cavalcante, Lucas
Originator: Cohen, Warren B.
Originator: Healey, Sean
Publication_Date: 2018
Title:
Implementation of the LandTrendr Algorithm on Google Earth Engine
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Remote Sensing
Issue_Identification: 10(5): 691
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050691
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Kennedy, Robert E.
Originator: Braaten, Justin D.
Originator: Khalyani, Azad Henareh
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:
Examining post-fire vegetation recovery with Landsat time series analysis in three western North American forest types
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: journal article
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 15: 8
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0021-9
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Masek, J.G.
Originator: Vermote, E.F.
Originator: Saleous, N.E.
Originator: Wolfe, R.
Originator: Hall, F.G.
Originator: Huemmrich, K.F.
Originator: Gao, F.
Originator: Kutler, J.
Originator: Lim, T-K.
Publication_Date: 2006
Title:
A Landsat surface reflectance dataset for North America, 1990-2000
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Issue_Identification: 3(1): 68-72
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2005.857030
Type_of_Source_Media: Online
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Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1984
Ending_Date: 2016
Source_Currentness_Reference:
Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation:
Masek et al. 2006
Source_Contribution:
For each region, we assembled a collection of USGS surface reflectance images from 1984 to 2016, for dates June 1st through September 30th. The collection included images fromTM, ETM+, and OLI sensors.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Eidenshink, Jeff
Originator: Schwind, Brian
Originator: Brewer, Ken
Originator: Zhu, Zhu-Liang
Originator: Quayle, Brad
Originator: Howard, Stephen
Publication_Date: 2007
Title:
A project for monitoring trends in burn severity
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Fire Ecology
Issue_Identification: 3(1): 3-21
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.0301003
Type_of_Source_Media: Online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
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Beginning_Date: 2000
Ending_Date: 2007
Source_Currentness_Reference:
Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation:
Eidenshink et al. 2007
Source_Contribution:
Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (DNBR) values at each plot location were extracted from DNBR rasters produced by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
See methodology section above for method and process steps.
Process_Date: 2019
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Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
Below is a description of the files included in this data publication.

DATA FILES

\Data\field_attrib_and_satellite_data.csv: Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing field attributes such as vegetation, soil, and surface cover characteristics measured from 2013-2016 for five western U.S. ecosystems that had fires from 2000-2007. Also included are satellite observations such as differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) measurements from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), as well as annual (1984-2016) satellite observations of the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) derived from the Landsat-based detection of Trends in Disturbance and Recovery (LandTrendr) algorithm. (For a list and description of each variable in this file see \Data\field_attrib_and_satellite_descriptions.csv.)

\Data\field_attrib_and_satellite_descriptions.csv: Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing a complete list and description of each variable in field_attrib_and_satellite_data.csv.


SUPPLEMENTAL FILES

\Supplements\14-1-02-27_JFSP_final_report.pdf: Adobe Acrobat PDF/a file containing the Joint Fire Science Program Final Report (Project ID: 14-1-02-27): "How vegetation recovery and fuel conditions in past fires influences fuels and future fire management in five western U.S. ecosystems".

\Supplements\BurnSev_remeas_field_sampling_protocol_v7.pdf: Adobe Acrobat PDF/a file containing the sampling protocol for burn severity re-measurements sites.

\Supplements\R_code_to_merge_data.txt: ASCII text file containing R code that will merge data from this publication with the data from Hudak (2010, 2013) and Bright et al. (2019: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0015).
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
Keane, Robert E.; Dickinson, Laura J. 2007. The photoload sampling technique: estimating surface fuel loadings from downward-looking photographs of synthetic fuelbeds. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-190. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 44 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-190

Roberts, David W.; Cooper, Stephen V. 1989. Concepts and techniques of vegetation mapping. In: Ferguson, Dennis E.; Morgan, Penelope; Johnson, Frederic D., eds. Land classifications based on vegetation: applications for resource management. General Technical Report INT-257. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 90-96. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100156

Also see files included in \Supplements folder (included in the full data publication download).
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Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Research and Development
Contact_Position: Research Data Archivist
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Address: 240 West Prospect Road
City: Fort Collins
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