Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Rim Fire vegetation tracker

The Forest Carbon research team at NASA Ames Research Center has launched the Rim Fire Tracker online map viewer to help track regenerating vegetation areas within the 2013 burned severity classes.  The maps feature changes in current (2014) Landsat 8 NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) compared to last October's (post-burn) NDVI.  The map layers will be updated every month with a new Landsat NDVI difference product.   Subsequent image analysis of the vegetation community in regenerating areas will be added to this map viewer over time. Tools are provided to zoom to a location, identify values, and download map layers.  Subsequent image analysis of the vegetation community in regenerating areas will be added based on the methods published previously by Potter et al. (2012).