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Multi-scale measurements in support of improved fire, fuel, and smoke models of landscape-level wildland fires

Fire is a fundamental biophysical process shaping ecosystems globally, yet it presents significant challenges for scientific investigation, particularly at landscape scales. Landscape scale prescribed fires offer a valuable opportunity for advancing fire science through comprehensive interdisciplinary research experiments with the ability to investigate ecosystems prior to, during and after fires. This collection deals with the co-production of management-relevant science between fire managers and researchers with a focus on state-of-the art measurements of 3D fuels, fire behavior and smoke dynamics to inform and improve the development of next-generation fuels, fire and smoke models.

Collection Editors
Joseph J. O’Brien (USDA)
Andrew Hudak (USDA)
Alistair Smith (University of Idaho)

Last Updated: 18 Jul 2025

WF24210Comparing biomass consumption estimated from point cloud data versus long-wave infrared imagery during prescribed growing season burns in pine woodlands of the southeastern United States

Benjamin C. Bright 0000-0002-8363-0803, Andrew T. Hudak, Nuria Sánchez-López, E. Louise Loudermilk, Christie M. Hawley, Eric Rowell, Joseph J. O’Brien, Steven A. Flanagan 0000-0001-5172-3530, Kevin Robertson, Akira Kato, Chad Hoffman, David R. Weise 0000-0002-9671-7203 and J. Kevin Hiers

We demonstrate a new method for combining terrestrial and airborne laser scanning data to estimate fuel consumed by fire and compare how lasers and long-wave infrared imagery estimate consumption. We find that these remote sensing techniques provide comparable consumption estimates and that most fuel consumption occurs on the forest floor.

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