ARSET - Assessing the Impacts of Fires on Watershed Health
Start Date:
July 6, 2023
End Date:
July 13, 2023
Description:
This training will highlight uses of NASA Earth observations (EO) for pre-fire land cover mapping, watershed delineation and stream mapping, post-fire burn severity mapping, and pre- and post-fire riverine and freshwater water quality. It will highlight case studies that use remote sensing data for assessing the impacts of fires on watersheds.
Targeted Audience:
The primary audience for this training consists of local, regional, state, federal, and international organizations involved in resource and ecosystem management and disaster response. The secondary audience for this training are those with an interest in applying remote sensing data toward fire science.
Expected Outcomes:
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
- Distinguish, compare, and contrast the biophysical conditions pre-and post-fire
- Analyze the key fire science criteria to select the appropriate data from satellites/instruments for a given watershed
- Acquire land use & land cover maps for the region of interest
- Select river basin and sub-basin boundaries for their region of interest
- Recognize how to develop a river basin-scale model using SWAT to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and groundwater
