XXII ISPRS Congress 2012: Technical Commission VIII

Shortis, M.; Shimoda, H.; Cho, K.

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Title:: XXII ISPRS Congress 2012

Sub title:: Melbourne, Australia, 25 August-1 September 2012

Year of publication:: 2013

Place of publication:: Red Hook, NY

Publisher of the original:: Curran Associates, Inc.

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Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Kongress-Thema: Imaging a sustainable future

Corporations:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 22., 2012, Melbourne; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Other corporate:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 22., 2012, Melbourne; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Persistent identifier:: 1663822514

Title:: Technical Commission VIII

Scope:: 590 Seiten

Year of publication:: 2014

Place of publication:: Red Hook, NY

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Editor:: Shortis, M.; Shimoda, H.; Cho, K.

Corporations:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 22., 2012, Melbourne; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2019

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Title:: BURN SEVERITY MAPPING IN AUSTRALIA 2009 R. McKinley, J. Clark, J. Lecker

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me XXXIX-B8, 2012 apping. Photogrammetric p.513-523. z, T. 2006. Engineering 'eographical information logy and the Environment. BURN SEVERITY MAPPING IN AUSTRALIA 2009 R. McKinley **, J. Clark?, J. Lecker" ?U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD USA — rmckinley@usgs.gov "U.S. Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT USA — (jtclark, jlecker)@fs.fed.us. KEY WORDS: Hazards, Forest fire, Change detection, Landsat, Landscape ABSTRACT: In 2009, the Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment estimated approximately 430,000 hectares of Victoria Australia were burned by numerous bushfires. Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams from the United States were deployed to Victoria to assist local fire managers. The U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (USGS/EROS) and U.S. Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (USFS/RSAC) aided the support effort by providing satellite-derived “soil burn severity" maps for over 280,000 burned hectares. In the United States, BAER teams are assembled to make rapid assessments of burned lands to identify potential hazards to public health and property. An early step in the assessment process is the creation of a soil burn severity map used to identify hazard areas and prioritize treatment locations. These maps are developed primarily using Landsat satellite imagery and the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) algorithm. 1. INTRODUCTION Land managers in the United States are concerned with the response of watersheds to precipitation after a wildfire. With an ever-expanding wildland-urban interface (WUI), land managers must be continually cognizant of potential damage to private property and other values at risk due to fire (Clark, 201 1). Land management agencies deploy Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams to “prescribe and implement emergency treatments to minimize threats to life or property or to stabilize and prevent unacceptable degradation to natural and cultural resources resulting from the effects of a fire” (USDA Forest Service, 2004). In the United States, the primary BAER team objective is emergency stabilization of burned areas rather than long-term restoration of the landscape after a fire. BAER teams assess conditions and prescribe treatments in an effort to protect life and property and prevent additional damage to resources (Clark, 2011). Burned area treatments can include seeding of desired species, application of mulch to provide ground cover, contour log felling and the construction of log barriers to reduce erosion, and protecting transportation corridors by enlarging culverts or installing fences to minimize the impact of debris flows and increased runoff. BAER teams attempt to immediately address hazards that burned areas may represent for several years. For example, lands experiencing high levels of burn severity may be susceptible to mud and debris slides during and after heavy rain events. BAER teams attempt to locate areas of high burn severity and assess the potential downstream damage that could result from such slides. Factors such as the presence of personal property, threatened and endangered species, archeological sites, water supplies, and threats to soil productivity must be considered by BAER teams. In the United States, one of a BAER team’s first tasks is to develop a soil burn severity map that highlights the areas of low, moderate, and high bum severity within a wildfire perimeter (Clark, 2011). The term “soil burn severity” is used to prevent confusion with other BAER maps that focus more specifically on vegetation mortality. For BAER purposes, soil burn severity is generally defined as fire-caused changes in soil characteristics that affect the soil hydrologic function. Along with other environmental and terrain variables, soil burn severity is a critical input to 51 subsequent GIS modeling scenarios used to assess or predict potential post fire effects such as increased surface water runoff, debris flows (Cannon, 2010), and erosion. The soil burn severity map also serves as a base map for subsequent BAER assessments. Traditionally, the BAER soil burn severity map was created by sketching burn perimeters on a topographic map—or even a forest-visitor map—from a helicopter or road-accessible overlook (Clark, 2011). These methods were often inaccurate and labor intensive especially when mapping large fires in remote or inaccessible locations. In 2001, the use of satellite imagery and remote sensing techniques for soil burn severity mapping was pioneered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) United States Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resource Observation and Science (EROS). Working cooperatively, the two centers have succeeded in establishing an operational program to serve DOI and USDA BAER teams and other local, state and federal land management entities. This support activity is usually required from the time of fire containment to 7 to 14 days post-fire when BAER teams generally must complete their assessments. EROS and RSAC have developed methodologies to provide immediate post-fire GIS-ready map and image layers that characterizes landscape change due to fire. In the United States, remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies have proven to be an effective alternative to traditional soil burn severity mapping techniques. In 2009, US BAER teams were deployed to Victoria to assist local fire managers. USGS EROS and USFS RSAC supported these teams by providing satellite-derived soil burn severity maps for over 280,000 burned hectares (691,895 acres). The BAER team support work and the satellite burn mapping effort were achieved with a high degree of cooperation with Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and the Australian government's National Earth Observation Group (previously known as ACRES), which is affiliated with Geoscience Australia. This group provides earth observation services including data from Australia's principal earth resource satellite ground station and data processing

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