Geographic Analysis of Burn Severity for the 2013 California Rim Fire - Natural Resources

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Volume 5, Issue 11 (August 2014)

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Geographic Analysis of Burn Severity for the 2013 California Rim Fire ()

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DOI: 10.4236/nr.2014.511052 4,468 Downloads 5,707 Views Citations

Author(s)

Christopher Potter

Affiliation(s)

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

ABSTRACT

Analysis of Landsat imagery was applied to classify burn severity within the 2013 Rim Fire area using the relative difference normalized burn ratio (RdNBR). Results showed 53,220 ha in the High Burn Severity (HBS) class and another 34,214 ha in the Moderate Burn Severity (MBS) class. Within Yosemite National Park, 12,084 ha were detected by RdNBR analysis in the HBS class and another 11,089 ha in the MBS class. The most typical ecosystem habitat detected within the HBS class was Ponderosa pine—Mixed Conifer forest, between the elevations of 1000 and 2000 meters or on slopes between 5 and 30 percent. Most of the HBS areas were located in areas where high levels of pre-fire fuels were quantified by 2013 Landsat vegetation index (NDVI) values between 500 and 800. The Low Burn Severity (LBS) class covered a higher fraction of areas where the duration since last fire (YSF) was less than 25 years, compared to the HBS class, which covered a higher fraction of areas where the YSF was greater than 60 years.

KEYWORDS

Wildfire, California, Burn Severity, Landsat, Remote Sensing

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Potter, C. (2014) Geographic Analysis of Burn Severity for the 2013 California Rim Fire. Natural Resources, 5, 597-606. doi: 10.4236/nr.2014.511052.

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