Quantifying surface severity of the 2014 and 2015 fires in the Great Slave Lake area of Canada

• Main Authors: French, Nancy H. F., Graham, Jeremy, Whitman, Ellen, Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech 2020
• Subjects: Boreal ecosystems; Duff; Fire severity; Peat; Remote sensing; Michigan Tech Research Institute; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Sciences; Geographic Information Sciences; Canada; Great Slave Lake; Northwest Territories; Slave Lake
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/14385; https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=33689&context=michigantech-p

The focus of this paper was the development of surface organic layer severity maps for the 2014 and 2015 fires in the Great Slave Lake area of the Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada, using multiple linear regression models generated from pairing field data with Landsat 8 data. Field severity...