From properties to public lands: human and wildfire interactions across the western US

  • Mapped built infrastructure over time using freely-available remote sensing data and open-source cloud computing software

    • Demonstrated that residential and commerical infrastructure can be differentiated between using a fusion of Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery

  • Critically reviewed wildland-urban interface (WUI) conceptualizations in the context of wildfire risk management

    • WUI maps do not define wildfire risk, but they are often used to influence wildfire risk management

  • Explored wildfire ignition causes across public lands using fire datasets such as Fire Progam Analysis Fire-Occurence Database (FPA FOD)

    • Ignitions on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management have increased significantly over time, but this increase is predominantly due to human-caused ignitions

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