Workshop on Remote Sensing in Borea l/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science April 4-6, 2017 University of Alas ka Fairbanks
This is to alert t his community of an upcoming workshop on the application of remote sensing to boreal and arctic wildfire management, organized by the Alaska Fire Scie nce Consortium April 4-6, 2017 in Fairbanks, AK.
Please see https://ww
w.frames.gov/partner-sites/afsc/events/previous-events/workshops/2017-rs-wo
rkshop/ to submit abstracts and travel support requests. Please distri
bute widely.
Background and objectives: With support
from NASA, the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is organizing an inter
national workshop to advance remote sensing tools and data for operational
and scientific applications by high northern latitude fire ecology and mana
gement communities. Participants will include interagency fire managers as
well as scientists with an interest in remote sensing and a variety of disc
iplines.
Topics of interest incl ude:
Potential fire ris
k: Can remotely sensed data (e.g., daily snow extent, others) esti
mate spring soil moisture and surface and subsurface fuel moisture and fuel
conditions, and thus provide critical inputs for fuel moisture indices use
d to predict fire danger and risk?
Near real-time fire behavio
r: Which remotely sensed data are best and most timely for fire de
tection, plume tracking of fire emissions, fire behavior modeling, mapping
of flaming fronts, fire intensity, active fire perimeters, and response for
ongoing fires?
Post-fire effects: Can we improve ana
lytical methods for remotely sensed data to assess fire severity, consumpti
on/CO2 balance, active-layer changes, and successional trajectories of high
latitude vegetation communities?
The outcomes of this workshop are expected to include co-develop
ed investigations into new management and scientific uses of remote sensing
data, increasing the scientific foundation and operational efficiency of n
orthern fire management; improving understanding of climate-induced changes
in northern fire regimes and ecosystem components and potential feedbacks
to the global climate system; and leading to expanded application and use o
f remotely sensed data for fire management and fire science in high latitud
es.
AFSC will publish workshop proceedin gs, including presentation abstracts, results, and consensus recommendation s. This project is a contribution to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s W ildfire Collaboration Team. Please see Intensification of Wildfire in High Latitudes: Research Priorities to Help Fire Managers and Satellite and Airborne Fire Sensor Systems for Arctic Wildfire Observat ions for additional background.
Guid e for authors: Abstracts of up to 500 words for both oral and poster presen tations are welcome. The deadline to submit abstracts is November 1 5, 2016. To submit abstracts, click here.
Applications for travel s upport: Limited funding is available to offset selected presenters’ travel expenses, with priority given to students and other young investigators. Ap plications for travel support are available here and are due November 15, 2016.
Associated training opportunity: With sufficie nt interest, NASA’s Applied Remote Se nsing Training (ARSET) project and/or Short-term Prediction Research and Transistion Center (SPoRT)< /a> will offer an optional day of hands-on training for integrating NASA Ea rth Science data into wildland fire science, decisionmaking, and management . Please indicate your interest in this opportunity on the submission form.
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