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05/10/2021

Here are also instructions to make sure that location services is turned on your phone before taking photos.
https://www.cultofmac.com/266849/see-took-photos-iphone-ios-tips/?fbclid=IwAR0Dc7Rmj9m8gciiNndKWIdmiOQETa2nBcUEEkGacfiP77_4T77eI_KGjWk

One of the cool things that your iPhone can do is tag your photos with geolocations. That way, you'll know where you took the photo in addition to having

05/10/2021

With the trails starting to dry out, you should go out and collect geotagged photos that will be used to validate and improve fire fuel maps across the state of Alaska!

Here are some instructions on how to turn on location services on android phones.

03/02/2021

Members of our team over the weekend had their paper "Improved Boreal Forest Wildfire Fuel Type Mapping in Interior Alaska Using AVIRIS-NG Hyperspectral Data" published in Remote Sensing.

In Alaska the current wildfire fuel map products were generated from low spatial (30 m) and spectral resolution (11 bands) Landsat 8 satellite imagery which resulted in map products that not only lack the granularity but also have insufficient accuracy to be effective in fire and fuel management at....

02/12/2021

Chris Smith, a member of the MaD BoV team will presenting his research on assessing burn severity using satellite imagery.

01/11/2021

Grad students on our Team, Chris Smith and Anushree Badola, presented their research at the 2020 AGU fall conference.

Chris' poster was titled "Assessing Burn Severity in the Alaskan Boreal Forest using Remote Sensing Methods". He was able to generate burn severity maps with 83% accuracy.

Anushree's poster was titled "Simulating AVIRIS-NG Hyperspectral Image from Sentinel-2 Multispectral Image for Improved Wildfire Fuel Mapping, Boreal Alaska". Badola's simulated date was able to map vegetation at an 84% accuracy.

01/05/2021

Dr. Franz Meyer is teaching a course on Microwave Remote Sensing this spring semester. This course is available to both UAF and Non-UAF students. More information below:

University of Alaska (UA) students, please register via https://www.alaska.edu/uaonline/
Non-UA students, please follow the instructions on the class homepage for registration
More information about the class at: https://radar.community.uaf.edu/ and in the flyer attached.
Start date: Jan 12, 2021
Teaching mode: Synchronous online

Brief Course Description: The class teaches the fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing and its many applications to geoscience and geohazard-related questions. Modern cloud-based labs introduce you to the latest software tools and workflows in SAR and InSAR and touch on subjects such as surface water mapping, forest and agriculture monitoring, and surface deformation measurements related to volcanic and seismic activity. More information in the class syllabus.

12/09/2020

IARC and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium released Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment today!

The report uses compelling visuals to show how Alaska’s vast and complex wildfire environment is changing. Learn about recent wildfire trends in Alaska, their impacts to humans and climate change, and the strong relationship between wildfire managers and scientists to improve fire-related decision making.

https://www.frames.gov/afsc/alaskas-changing-wildfire-environment

11/26/2020

One of the members of the MaD BoV team, Dr. Panda, will be teaching NRM F435 this spring semester at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Signup for the class to learn GIS techniques that can be used in a wide range of fields.

10/16/2020

Now that snow is falling in the Interior, we would like to thank everyone who helped and collected photos that we will use in the future to help validate fire fuel maps. We are looking forward to receiving some more geotagged photos in the future.
Photo credit: Billie Haan

08/12/2020

Would you like to learn more about wildfire and how remote sensing methods are used to help predict, mitigate and prevent them. Lucky for you there is a online course being offered through edX by researchers from UAF. There is no prerequisites required. Click the link and enroll today!

Learn how satellite imagery and the science of remote sensing allows us to detect wildfires, help manage their spread, and guide ecological restoration.

07/10/2020

Here is an area that experienced high burn severity in the Shovel Creek burn scar.