USFS Landscape Science Webinar
When |
Oct 29, 2013
from 01:00 PM EDT to 02:00 PM EDT |
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Where | Webinar |
Contact Name | Amy Daniels |
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Wildfires may provide an efficient means to maintain or restore some aspects of fire-adapted landscapes. Yet with the added influence of invasive species and climate change, wildfires may also facilitate or accelerate undesired type conversions. This talk presents a framework for integrating cross-jurisdictional, landscape-scale monitoring and prediction with management objectives using measures of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from MODIS imagery. Measures are both fire and recovery sensitive to contextualize short or long-term change with respect to any actual, potential, or idealized pre-wildfire baseline or desired future condition. This integrative, coarse-filter approach provides land managers with planning tools for efficiently recognizing and prioritizing problems in disturbance-prone landscapes, whether or not they have recently burned.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
Federal, state & local land managers; federal and university landscape science and fire researchers; national forest climate change coordinators; GIS & remote sensing application specialists; NGO representatives, land use planners and other interested citizens.
WEBINAR CONNECTION DETAILS
Click here to JOIN THE MEETING up to 30 minutes prior. Audio is exclusively via phone: 1-888-858-2144,passcode 1418655. Live captioning here. First time users please log in early.