Articles | Volume 24, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3337-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3337-2024
Research article
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30 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 30 Sep 2024

Improving fire severity prediction in south-eastern Australia using vegetation-specific information

Kang He, Xinyi Shen, Cory Merow, Efthymios Nikolopoulos, Rachael V. Gallagher, Feifei Yang, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

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ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present J. Muñoz Sabater https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e2161bac

NPWS Fire History - Wildfires and Prescribed Burns NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/1d05e145-80cb-4275-af9b-327a1536798d

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A framework combining a fire severity classification with a regression model to predict an indicator of fire severity derived from Landsat imagery (difference normalized burning ratio, dNBR) is proposed. The results show that the proposed predictive technique is capable of providing robust fire severity prediction information, which can be used for forecasting seasonal fire severity and, subsequently, impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems under projected future climate conditions.
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