I worked on this project recently with Haoyu Li at Clark University. Vandenberg Air Force Base had a quick burning fire pass by one of its rocket launch pads this past September. The fire started by an unknown source in the hills behind the launchpad and at its peak had over 1,000 fire fighters working to contain the fire. We used Landsat 8 for Pre and Post fire imagery, classification, and for NBR. We created training sites and used Maximum Likelihood Classification.
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| Pre Fire: Oct 1, 2015 Landsat 8 |
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| Post Fire: Oct. 3, 2016 Landsat 8 |
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| Pre Fire Maximum Likelihood Classification |
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| Post Fire Maximum Likelihood Classification |
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Normalized Burn Ratio or NBR
Landsat
8 uses bands 5 and 7 |
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| Shows burn severity and change |
Source: Landsat 8
