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Description

This data set provides high-resolution surface reflectance, thermal imagery, burn severity metrics, and LiDAR-derived structural measures of forested areas in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA, collected before and after the August 2013 Rim and September 2014 King mega forest fires. Pre-fire data were paired with post-fire collections to assess pre- and post-fire landscape characteristics and fire severity. Field estimates of fire severity were collected to compare with derived remote sensing indices. Reflectance measurements for the spectroscopic AVIRIS and MASTER sensors are distributed as multi-band geotiffs for each megafire and acquisition date. Derived operational metric products for each sensor are provided in individual GeoTIFFs. GeoTIFFs produced from LiDAR point data depict first order topographic indices and summary statistics of vertical vegetation structure.

Product Summary

Platforms
NASA ER-2
Instruments
NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROMETER ,
LIDAR ,
AVIRIS
Projects
Vegetation
Spatial Extent

N: 39.2193 S: 37.657 E: -119.57 W: -120.81

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2010-07-21 to 2015-01-15
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2773214672-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
394
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Wildfires ,
Biomass Burning ,
Fire Ecology ,
Forest Fire Science

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Stavros, N., Tane, Z., Kane, V., Veraverbeke, S., McGaughey, R., Lutz, J. A., Ramirez, C., & Schimel, D. S. (2016). Remote Sensing Data Before and After California Rim and King Forest Fires, 2010-2015 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1288 Date Accessed: 2026-10-17

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Evaluating the Hyperspectral Sensitivity of the Differenced Normalized
  • van Gerrevink, Max J., Veraverbeke, Sander
Advancing Fire Science with Large Forest Plots and a Long-Term Multidisciplinary Approach
  • Lutz, James, Larson, Andrew, Swanson, Mark
Use of imaging spectroscopy and LIDAR to characterize fuels for fire behavior prediction
  • Stavros, E. Natasha, Coen, Janice, Peterson, Birgit, Singh, Harshvardhan, Kennedy, Kama, Ramirez, Carlos, Schimel, David
Deconstructing the King megafire
  • Coen, Janice L., Stavros, E. Natasha, FitesKaufman, Josephine A.
Unprecedented remote sensing data over King and Rim megafires in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California
  • Stavros, E. Natasha, Tane, Zachary, Kane, Van R., Veraverbeke, Sander, McGaughey, Robert J., Lutz, James A., Ramirez, Carlos, Schimel, David
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