Spatially-Explicit Prediction of Wildfire Burn Probability Using Remotely-Sensed and Ancillary Data

Commentary on the article “Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada – Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning” by J.L. Beverly and N. McLoughlin

(2020) Marc-André Parisien et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Uncovering regional variability in disturbance trends between parks and greater park ecosystems across Canada (1985–2015)

(2019) Douglas K. Bolton et al.   Scientific Reports

Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada – Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning

(2019) Jennifer L. Beverly et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Prevalence of multiple forest disturbances and impact on vegetation regrowth from interannual Landsat time series (1985–2015)

(2019) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Short-interval wildfire and drought overwhelm boreal forest resilience

(2019) Ellen Whitman et al.   Scientific Reports

Disturbance-Informed Annual Land Cover Classification Maps of Canada's Forested Ecosystems for a 29-Year Landsat Time Series

(2018) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Stand Age Influence on Potential Wildfire Ignition and Spread in the Boreal Forest of Northeastern Canada

(2018) Sandy Erni et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests

(2018) Sean A Parks et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Updating stand-level forest inventories using airborne laser scanning and Landsat time series data

(2018) Douglas K. Bolton et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Modeling the effects of different fuel treatment mosaics on wildfire spread and behavior in a Mediterranean agro-pastoral area

(2018) Michele Salis et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A thirty year, fine-scale, characterization of area burned in Canadian forests shows evidence of regionally increasing trends in the last decade

(2018) Nicholas C. Coops et al.   PLoS One

Large-area mapping of Canadian boreal forest cover, height, biomass and other structural attributes using Landsat composites and lidar plots

(2018) Giona Matasci et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Variability and drivers of burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest

(2018) Ellen Whitman et al.   Ecosphere

Visual interpretation and time series modeling of Landsat imagery highlight drought's role in forest canopy declines

(2018) David M. Bell et al.   Ecosphere

Disturbance-Informed Annual Land Cover Classification Maps of Canada's Forested Ecosystems for a 29-Year Landsat Time Series

(2018) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Three decades of forest structural dynamics over Canada's forested ecosystems using Landsat time-series and lidar plots

(2018) Giona Matasci et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Statistical Models of Key Components of Wildfire Risk

(2018) Dexen D.Z. Xi et al.   Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

Potential climate change impacts on fire intensity and key wildfire suppression thresholds in Canada

(2017) B M Wotton et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Characterizing historical fire patterns as a guide for harvesting planning using landscape metrics derived from long term satellite imagery

(2017) Ignacio San-Miguel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The normal fire environment—Modeling environmental suitability for large forest wildfires using past, present, and future climate normals

(2017) Raymond Davis et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Updating Landsat time series of surface-reflectance composites and forest change products with new observations

(2017) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Is there an inherent conflict in managing fire for people and conservation?

(2017) P. D. Bentley et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series

(2017) Joanne C. White et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Assessing Wildland Fire Risk Transmission to Communities in Northern Spain

(2017) Fermín Alcasena et al.   Forests

Remote sensing approach to detect post-fire vegetation regrowth in Siberian boreal larch forest

(2016) Thuan Chu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985–2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline

(2016) Warren B. Cohen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mass data processing of time series Landsat imagery: pixels to data products for forest monitoring

(2016) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Future burn probability in south-central British Columbia

(2016) Xianli Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Random forest in remote sensing: A review of applications and future directions

(2016) Mariana Belgiu et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Preliminary analysis of the performance of the Landsat 8/OLI land surface reflectance product

(2016) Eric Vermote et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Four National Maps of Broad Forest Type Provide Inconsistent Answers to the Question of What Burns in Canada

(2016) Guillermo Castilla et al.   Remote Sensing

Increasing frequency of extreme fire weather in Canada with climate change

(2015) Xianli Wang et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Integrating forest fuels and land cover data for improved estimation of fuel consumption and carbon emissions from boreal fires

(2015) Kerry Anderson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Regional detection, characterization, and attribution of annual forest change from 1984 to 2012 using Landsat-derived time-series metrics

(2015) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

An integrated Landsat time series protocol for change detection and generation of annual gap-free surface reflectance composites

(2015) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A refinement of models projecting future Canadian fire regimes using homogeneous fire regime zones

(2014) Yan Boulanger et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science

(2014) J. C. White et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

An analysis of controls on fire activity in boreal Canada: comparing models built with different temporal resolutions

(2014) Marc-André Parisien et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Characterization of aboveground biomass in an unmanaged boreal forest using Landsat temporal segmentation metrics

(2014) Ryan J. Frazier et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Previous Fires Moderate Burn Severity of Subsequent Wildland Fires in Two Large Western US Wilderness Areas

(2013) Sean A. Parks et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems

(2013) David T. Price et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

A Pixel-Based Landsat Compositing Algorithm for Large Area Land Cover Mapping

(2013) Patrick Griffiths et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

A polygon-based modeling approach to assess exposure of resources and assets to wildfire

(2013) Matthew P. Thompson et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Wildfire Prediction to Inform Fire Management: Statistical Science Challenges

(2013) S. W. Taylor et al.   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

Lidar plots — a new large-area data collection option: context, concepts, and case study

(2012) Michael A. Wulder et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A comparison of Canadian and Russian boreal forest fire regimes

(2012) William J. de Groot et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

An alternative fire regime zonation for Canada

(2012) Yan Boulanger et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Assessing exposure of human and ecological values to wildfire in Sardinia, Italy

(2012) Michele Salis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Studying the effects of fuel treatment based on burn probability on a boreal forest landscape

(2012) Zhihua Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Considerations for modeling burn probability across landscapes with steep environmental gradients: an example from the Columbia Mountains, Canada

(2012) Marc-André Parisien et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Using Landsat-derived disturbance history (1972–2010) to predict current forest structure

(2012) Dirk Pflugmacher et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Multiple Classifier System for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A Review

(2012) Peijun Du et al.   SENSORS

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

(2012) Max A. Moritz et al.   Ecosphere

Quantifying the Threat of Unsuppressed Wildfires Reaching the Adjacent Wildland-Urban Interface on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA

(2012) Joe H. Scott et al.   Fire Ecology

Factors influencing national scale wildfire susceptibility in Canada

(2011) Nicholas J. Gralewicz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery

(2011) Zhe Zhu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States

(2011) Mark A. Finney et al.   STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT

Alaska’s changing fire regime — implications for the vulnerability of its boreal forestsThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) Eric S. Kasischke et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Scale-dependent controls on the area burned in the boreal forest of Canada, 1980–2005

(2010) Marc-André Parisien et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure

(2010) Alan A. Ager et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

An inventory-based analysis of Canada's managed forest carbon dynamics, 1990 to 2008

(2010) G. STINSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest fire occurrence and climate change in Canada

(2010) B. M. Wotton et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Estimating burn severity from Landsat dNBR and RdNBR indices across western Canada

(2010) Nicholas O. Soverel et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Forest floor fuel consumption and carbon emissions in Canadian boreal forest fires

(2009) W.J. de Groot et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Wildfire risk in the wildland–urban interface: A simulation study in northwestern Wisconsin

(2009) Avi Bar Massada et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Web-enabled Landsat Data (WELD): Landsat ETM+ composited mosaics of the conterminous United States

(2009) David P. Roy et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT