Graduate Student Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, United States
In 2020, northern Colorado’s forests encountered two wildfires, Cameron Peak and East Troublesome, that totaled over 400,000 acres. Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time-series, we identified landscape-scale patterns of NDVI-based vegetation recovery in these fires and call attention to slower recovery in high-elevation forests that burned at high severity.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will be able to identify trends in Normalized Difference Vegetation Index –based vegetation recovery in northern Colorado’s 2012 High Park Fire and 2020 East Troublesome and Cameron Peak Fires. Participants will gain an understanding of which fire severity and landscape factors have the greatest correlations with vegetation recovery and will be able to identify which areas are of highest concern in these fires.
Upon completion, participant will be able to better understand the role remote sensing technologies can play in tracking landscape-scale changes in disturbed areas.
