Southern California came and went. We were very busy for a few weeks, but were able to map all the fires in question. My Dept. of Interior counterpart took care of the San Diego County fires and I took care of the rest. I ended up mapping 8 fires:
Malibu Canyon, Ranch, Magic, Buckweed, Grass Valley, Slide, Santiago, and Ammo.
I ended up using Landsat 7 SLC-Off, AWiFS, and the photography flown by the NASA UAS called Ikhana. The photography was 10m resolution and was collected with the spectral bands I needed to map the fire.
The international disaster charter was enacted, but didn't provide that much useful imagery that was at least timely. Things worked out much better this go around when compared to 2003. That was a real headache.
NASA is still acquiring imagery using the MASTER sensor. That imagery will have 50 spectral bands and will be collected at 5m spatial resolution. This imagery isn't needed for my postfire soil burn severity mapping efforts, but other agencies (CAL FIRE, FEMA, San Diego County) will find a lot of use in it.
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I'm a remote sensing analyst for RedCastle Resources under contract at the U.S. Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, UT. My primary job is to use remote sensing and GIS technologies to map the burn severity of wildfires on all U.S. Forest Service lands. This blog is an attempt to chronicle my efforts.
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