B001
Advancements in Wildland Fire Science, Management, and Engagement: Integrating Earth Observation Technologies and Collaborative Development
Session ID#: 250707
Session Description:
Wildland fires pose significant challenges to communities, ecosystems, and economies worldwide. Balancing their negative impacts with their positive benefits requires innovative approaches that leverage cutting-edge technologies while fostering collaboration among multiple stakeholders. This session proposes a comprehensive exploration of advancements in wildland fire management, monitoring, and modeling by integrating Earth observation technologies and collaborative development efforts. We will highlight innovative approaches that foster cross-boundary, multi-jurisdictional collaborations among private, local, federal, and international partners. Efforts like Canada’s WildFireSat mission, NASA FireSense, the Pyregence Consortium, and the internationally funded GOFC-GOLD Fire Mapping and Monitoring Implementation Team are creating transformative wildland fire science, data products, and tools built on relationships and knowledge exchange. By bringing together a range of perspectives and expertise, we aim to advance the science and practice of wildland fire management while enhancing the resilience of communities and ecosystems in the face of increasing wildfire risk and lengthening fire seasons.
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Index Terms:
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3390 Wildland fire model [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners: Joanne Hall, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Morgan A. Crowley, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada and David S Saah, University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Harrison Raine, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Realtime Imaging Spectrometer Measurements of Active Fires for Fire Operations and Science: Results from the 2025 FireSense Campaigns (Invited) (1878586)
Philip E Dennison1, Katherine Mistick2, Holly Bender3, Philip G Brodrick4, John Chapman3, Adam Chlus3, Michael L Eastwood5, Regina Eckert5, Robert O Green5, Matthew Miller6, Ryan A Wade6, Jennifer Fowler7, Harrison Raine8 and Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD9, (1)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (7)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (9)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Designing Fuel Treatment Strategies: Optimizing Fuel Connectivity for Wildfire Risk Mitigation in Sierra Nevada (1878767)
Tianqi Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Kimberly Hall, The Nature Conservancy, Lansing, United States, Ms. Morgan Steckler, University of Tennessee, Department of Geography, Knoxville, United States, Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Improving Wildfire Smoke Forecasts for Air Quality Early Warning Systems (1896042)
Heather Holmes1, Taylor Wilmot2, Derek V. Mallia3 and Kerry Kelly2, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (2)University of Utah, Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States
Physics-Based Model with Bayesian Calibration Predicts Foliage Biomass from Single-Scan Terrestrial Lidar in Arizona Shrubland, Woodland, and Forest (1905623)
Johnathan Tenny, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Temuulen Sankey, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Self-supervised explainable deep learning to forecast future fire at monthly, seasonal, and annual, landscape scale (1915953)
Yuean Qiu, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States, David Roy, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, Hankui Zhang, South Dakota State University, Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, and Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Brookings, United States and Haiyan Huang, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States
Tracking Individual Fire Spread Behavior to Understand Global Fire Risk (1929557)
Rebecca Scholten1, Zeb Becker2, Yang Chen3, Shane Coffield4, Melanie B Follette-Cook5, Jinhyuk E. Kim6, Tina Liu7, Tempest Diana McCabe5, Douglas C Morton5, Elijah Orland8 and James Tremper Randerson1, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (4)University of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (7)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (8)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
Geospatial Database Mining for Multi-Resolution Pre and Post-Fire 3D Height Metrics Generation from USGS 3DEP Lidar Data in California (1935133)
Kyle Kristian Kabasares1,2, Taejin Park3, Khuong H Tran1,4, Ian G Brosnan5, Scott Horner6, Hirofumi Hashimoto4, Wen Yip1 and Pratima K C1,4, (1)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center/Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS): Advancing Wildland Fire Management Through Real-Time Earth Observation Integration (1941518)
Diane Davies1,2, Jenny Hewson3, Brad Quayle4, Otmar Olsina3, Asen Radov2, Louis Giglio5, Dylan Mendes2, Joanne Hall5, Sadashiva Devadiga6 and NASA FIRMS, (1)Trigg-Davies Consulting Ltd, Malvern, Worcs, United Kingdom, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, United States
Development of the Wind Hazard Identification, Surveillance and Prediction via Radar (WHISPR) system for enhanced firefighter safety (1951315)
Kiley Yeakel1, Phillip Stepanian1, Mark Veillette2 and Timothy Bonin1, (1)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, United States, (2)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States
ISOFire: Very near real-time fire temperature retrieval from airborne spectroscopy (1955032)
William Keely1,2, Philip G Brodrick3, Adam Chlus4, Katherine Mistick5, Philip E Dennison6, David R Thompson3 and Robert O Green2, (1)University of Oklahoma, Data Science & Analytics Institute, Norman, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (5)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States, (6)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Advancing Community Preparedness to Wildfire through Collaborative Science and Partnerships at NOAA’s Climate Program Office (1966536)
Laura Petes1, Monika Kopacz2, Annarita Mariotti2, Clara Deck3 and Jennifer Mahoney4, (1)NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, United States, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS), Silver Spring, United States, (4)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Rethinking Wildland Fire. (1972544)
Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Athens Prescribed Fire Science Laboratory, Athens, United States
Satellites as critical national assets for monitoring post fire hazards in coastal waters: a demonstration study following the early 2025 Los Angeles Fires (1974438)
Ileana A Callejas1, Vicky Espinoza2, Christine M Lee1, Michelle M Gierach3, Amanda Lopez4, Benjamin Holt1 and Carmen Blackwood1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
NASA FireSense – Supporting Proactive Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Management (1974734)
Harrison Raine1, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD2, Jennifer Fowler3, Ryan A Wade4, Matthew Miller4, Steven Stolze4 and Kelley Murphy4, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
A Network Modeling Approach to Quantify Homeowner Responsibility for Wildfire Risk Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface (1975524)
Minho Kim, University of California Berkeley, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, United States, Harrison Raine, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, John Radke, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Marta Gonzalez, University of California Berkeley, City and Regional Planning, Berkeley, United States
A Novel Strategy for Fuel-Break Placement Informed by Fire-Spread Connectivity to Effectively Mitigate Wildfire Risk (1977966)
Marcus Engsig, Technology Innovation Institute, Directed Energy Research Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Alejandro Tejedor, University of Zaragoza, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Zaragoza, Spain, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, Yamir Moreno, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, Chaouki Kasmi, Technology Innovation Institute, Directed Energy Research Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Gary Johnson, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Pleasanton, United States, Padhraic Smyth, University of California Irvine, Computer Science, Irvine, CA, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
Key Predictors of Wildfire Building Damage - A Data-Driven Approach Across California’s WUI (1978927)
Dr. Somnath BAR, PhD1, Shu Li2, Tirtha Banerjee1 and Shu Li, (1)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Integrating Innovative Observations into Coupled Wildfire Models (1982992)
Kyle Hilburn, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jan Mandel, University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Denver, CO, United States, Adam Kochanski, San Jose State University, Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center, San Jose, United States, Assad Oberai, University of Southern California, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Louis Nguyen, NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, United States, Andrew Michaelis, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Derek Vincent Mallia, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and William L Smith Sr., University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Eyes in the Sky After the Fire: Monitoring Rainfall-Triggered Landslides Using Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing plus AI (1983099)
Sanaz Vajedian, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, United States, Dr. Helen Poulos, PhD, Wesleyan University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Middletown, Connecticut, United States, Jeremy Maurer, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Rolla, MO, United States, Eli Horgan, Montclair State University, Montclair, United States, Liam Farrell, Wesleyan University, Middletown, United States and helen poulos
Enhancing Fire Behavior Modeling Through Live Fuel Moisture Analysis (1983739)
Shu Li, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, Sanna Sevanto, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
AVIRIS-3 Rapid Response to WUI Fires: A Case Study with the 2025 Eaton Fire (1983888)
Red Willow Willow Coleman1, Megan Ward-Baranyay2, Mark Wronkiewicz2, Francisco Ochoa3, Daniel Sousa4, Ceth Parker5, David R Thompson6, Clayton Elder2, Gregory S Okin1, K. Dana Chadwick7, John Chapman8, Kimberley Rain Miner7, Regina Eckert2, Robert O Green2, Daniel Jensen8 and Philip G Brodrick6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
From Perimeters to Probabilities: Advancing Wildfire Spread Forecasting in Alaska with FiRE‑HNL (1986477)
Jordan Caraballo-Vega, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Mark Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States, Dong Chen, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, Allison Bredder, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Adrian V Rocha, University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, United States, Rachel Badzioch, University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Caleb Spradlin, Muon Space, Mountain View, United States, Paul Montesano, ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States and Michael Martinez-Vega, University of Puerto Rico Humacao, Department of Biology, Humacao, United States
Incorporating Actionable CYGNSS Soil Moisture Information into State-Level Wildfire Risk Prediction Systems (1986911)
Ian Colwell, Muon Space, Los Angeles, California, UNITED STATES, Clara Chew, Muon Space, Mountain View, Ca, United States, Dallas Masters, Muon Space, Mountain View, United States, Robert Clark, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), Sacramento, United States and Scott Purdy, Technosylva, León, Spain
Modeling Burn Severity of the Early 2025 Los Angeles County Wildfires with EMIT and ECOSTRESS Pre-Fire Fuels Conditions Using a Random Forest Approach (1988937)
Megan Ward-Baranyay1,2, Christine M Lee2, Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell2 and Daniel Sousa1, (1)San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Around the Fire: Integrating a Research-to-Operations / Applications Paradigm into NASA’s FireSense Project (1989094)
Matthew Miller1,2, Ryan A Wade2,3, Kelley Murphy1,2, Steven Stolze2,3, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD4, Harrison Raine5 and Jennifer Fowler6, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
Deploying Real-Time High-Resolution Fire Intelligence: Results from Urban Sky's Balloon Platform (1996395)
Riley Reid1, Jared Leidich1, Joshua B. Fisher2, Ian Mccubbin3, Ryan Stonebreaker4 and Scott Davidoff5, (1)Urban Sky, Denver, United States, (2)Hydrosat, Washington, DC, United States, (3)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
An Adaptable Framework for Assessing Water Quality Impact Potential of Materials in Burned Watersheds (1998211)
Jodi L. Ryder1, Sage Paris2, Noemi Barabas2 and Billy E. Johnson2, (1)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, (2)LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, United States
A Wildfire Tool Out in the Cold: Lack of Awareness and Use of NASA FIRMS Among Wildfire Officials and Diverse Communities (1999129)
Nathaniel Bransky1, Kerry Grimm2, Temuulen Sankey1 and Rachel Mitchell3, (1)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, (2)National Audubon Society, New York, New York, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, Arizona, United States
A new approach to integrating multiple spatiotemporal records to analyze how wind speed drives variable wildfire rate of spread (ROS) (2004493)
Natalie Devito1,2, Marwan Katurji2, Craig B Clements3 and Scott Dilworth3, (1)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment, Christchurch, New Zealand, (3)San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, United States
Two-Dimensional Dual-Doppler Lidar Wind Observations During Prescribed Stubble Burns in Darfield, New Zealand (2004764)
Scott Dilworth1, Marwan Katurji2, Natalie Devito3 and Craig B Clements1, (1)San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, United States, (2)University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment, Christchurch, New Zealand, (3)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
