Related Links

The FIREHouse
A clearinghouse for fire science and technology that is funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to facilitate technology transfer between agencies in support of the National Fire Plan. FIREHouse is a collaboration between the Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team of the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory; the University of Washington; the North Cascades National Park Service
Complex; and the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).

Wildland Fire Ecology Websites
Links to various ecology websites through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) web bibliography. A great resource!

National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey:
National Burn Severity Mapping Project
The Joint NPS-USGS National Burn Severity Mapping Project addresses the need to quantify fire effects over large, often-remote regions and long time intervals.

Post-Fire Burn Assessment by Remote Sensing on National Park Service Lands
The study addresses assessment of wildfires and fire use on National Park Service lands through remote sensing of burn severity.

Wildfires of Western Montana and Idaho
14 August through 8 October, 2000
A poster made up of a mosaic of Landsat ETM+ browse images acquired from August through October 2000 that demonstrates the size and distribution of burning in Western Montana and Idaho.

The Composite Burn Index (CBI):
Field Rating of Burn Severity
The Composite Burn Index (CBI) is designed to define burn severity ecologically, and measure ground effects which collectively provide a signal detected at moderate resolution by the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Fire Monitoring Handbook
This handbook is intended to facilitate and standardize monitoring where appropriate for NPS units that are subject to burning by wildland or prescribed fire.