This advanced-level training will focus on using remote sensing observations for monitoring post-fire impacts on watershed health, building off the ARSET training offered in 2021: Satellite Observations and Tools for Fire Risk, Detection, and Analysis. Specifically, this training will highlight uses of NASA Earth observations (EO) for pre-fire land cover mapping, watershed delineation and stream mapping, post-fire burn severity mapping, and pre- and post-fire riverine and freshwater water quality. This three-part training will highlight case studies that use remote sensing data for assessing the impacts of fires on watersheds. This training will also provide participants with hands-on exercises for using NASA EO for these assessments within the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Google Earth Engine.
The course is structured over three 1.5-hour sessions:
• “Part 1: Satellite Observations and Tools for Fire Risk” on Thursday, July 6, 2023
• “Part 2: Earth Observations and The Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for Assessing Post-Fire Water Quality in Watersheds” on Tuesday, July 11, 2023
• “Part 3: Using Google Earth Engine to Monitor Post-Fire Impacts” on Thursday, July 13, 2023