A new study reports a net increase of 5.38 petagrams of forest biomass between 1984 and 2016; carbon-wise, that is equivalent to a train of loaded coal cars long enough to wrap itself around Earth nearly 34 times.
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LANDFIRE has released its Remap dataset; new techniques and new data provide significant improvement.
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Fires in forested watersheds that support drinking water supplies can introduce contaminants that overwhelm current treatment capabilities. Earth observation data are helping.
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Landsat helped confirm and quantify what was only anecdotally known before: beaver dams make wetlands uniquely resistant to wildfires.
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Using satellite imagery is a cost-effective way to assess burned areas and triage mitigation measures post-wildfire, study found. Federal agencies can save as much as $7.7 million annually in post-fire costs by using Landsat.
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Sprawling urban fires that once plagued civilization were thought to be a thing the past—the Camp Fire let us know they are back.
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The first study that connects field-measured data with satellite-derived burn severity in this corner of the world.
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A new Burned Area algorithm has been developed by USGS to identify burned areas in images across the Landsat archive.
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A combination of lightning, drought and human activity caused fires to scorch more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1988.
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The 2014 megafires in Canada's Northwest Territories burned 7 million acres of forest, making it one of the most severe fire events in Canadian history.
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