USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 3
This issue of Firelight focuses on the use of remotely sensed data in addressing a wide range of wildland fire science and management applications across all phases of the fire cycle: pre-fire, during fire and post-fire. Numerous products and applications leverage information derived from satellite, aerial, and UAV sensors and help stakeholders, partners, and managers to make informed decisions.
MTBS Viewer: 20 Years of Data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is a joint USGS and USDA Forest Service program that consistently maps the burn severity and extent of large fires across all lands of the US from 1984 to present.
Landfire: Foundational data for interagency fire and land management
LANDFIRE is a Federal web portal with products that are integral to fire and land management and research within the United States. All LANDFIRE classified vegetation layers are reliant on remotely-sensed 30 m Landsat data.
Characterizing high-resolution soil burn severity, erosion risk, and recovery using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)
The western United States is experiencing severe wildfires whose observed impacts, including post-wildfire floods and debris flows, appear to be increasing over time.
Quantifying plant-soil-nutrient dynamics in rangelands: Fusion of UAV hyperspectral-LiDAR, UAV multispectral-photogrammetry, and ground-based LiDAR-digital photography in a shrub-encroached desert grassland
Rangelands cover 70% of the world's land surface, and provide critical ecosystem services of primary production, soil carbon storage, and nutrient cycling. These ecosystem services are governed by very fine-scale spatial patterning of soil carbon, nutrients, and plant species at the centimeter-to-meter scales, a phenomenon known as “islands of fertility”. Such fine-scale dynamics are challenging t
USGS EROS Archive - Landsat - Landsat Level-3 Burned Area (BA) Science Product
Landsat Collection 1 Level-3 Burned Area (BA) contains two acquisition-based raster data products that represent burn classification and burn probability.
NOTE: Landsat Collection 1 data and products are no longer available to download from the USGS as of December 30, 2022. Landsat Collection 2 remains available. Please access the Landsat Collection 2 webpage below for information about Collection 2 data and science products.