Earth and Environmental Sciences Poster Session
Get burned! A geostatistical approach for quantifying wildfires
Academic Level at Time of Presentation
Junior
Major
Earth and Environmental Sciences/Geology
List all Project Mentors & Advisor(s)
Dr. Robin Zhang, PhD.
Presentation Format
Poster Presentation
Abstract/Description
As climate change begins to affect sea level and global temperatures, it has also contributed to the frequency of wildfires. In this research, using Landsat-8 satellite imagery collected using the USGS’s EarthExplorer website, the intentions were to determine vegetation disturbance quantitatively using the difference in Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) by observing pre- and post-fire data of the Bond Fire that began on December 3, 2020, in the Santiago Canyon region of Orange County, California. This was done by using ERDAS Imagine to find the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) of each image and ArcMap for classifying the values present in each photo to determine the total area affected before calculating the dNBR. With the results collected using this method, it can be determined there was a substantial amount of vegetation disturbed by the wildfire that burned through this region.
Location
Waterfield Gallery
Start Date
November 2021
End Date
November 2021
Fall Scholars Week 2021 Event
EES Poster Session
Get burned! A geostatistical approach for quantifying wildfires
Waterfield Gallery
As climate change begins to affect sea level and global temperatures, it has also contributed to the frequency of wildfires. In this research, using Landsat-8 satellite imagery collected using the USGS’s EarthExplorer website, the intentions were to determine vegetation disturbance quantitatively using the difference in Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) by observing pre- and post-fire data of the Bond Fire that began on December 3, 2020, in the Santiago Canyon region of Orange County, California. This was done by using ERDAS Imagine to find the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) of each image and ArcMap for classifying the values present in each photo to determine the total area affected before calculating the dNBR. With the results collected using this method, it can be determined there was a substantial amount of vegetation disturbed by the wildfire that burned through this region.