ABSTRACT

This article summarized an approach to simulate short-term post-fire vegetation recovery by integration of LANDFIRE data products, the differenced normalized burn ratio (DNBR) derived from Landsat remote sensing data, and LANDISv4.0a modeling at 30-meter cell size and one-year time interval. Combination of DNBR and LANDFIRE data products provided information on burn severity, pre-fire existing vegetation types, vegetation composition and structure, and the biophysical gradients that affect the distribution of ecosystem components.