Forest Public Access Resource Center ForestPARC

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Forest Public Access Resource Center(ForestPARC)
Dr Alistair Smith, University of Idaho
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Established and Emerging ForestPARC Strengths
Remote Sensing
Instrument Development Lidar Hypers
pectral
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Approach
Strengths
Ideas Workshops Est. Collaborating Groups
Pilot Research
Submit Proposals
Submit Papers
Increase Visibility of ForestPARC and UMAC
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Developments in Fire Ecology and Emissions
Developing proposals for USDA CSREES Air Quality
RFP
Review Panel Member for the Joint Fire Sciences
Program As a result, ForestPARC will submit 2 J
FS proposals in December 2005 Good source of fund
s for Local Needs and Tech Transfer
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Developing Strengths in Carbon and Fuels
ForestPARC Annual Workshop on Lidar 17th-19th
May 2004 - 40 End users (Forest service manager
s, tribal researchers, etc) - Fostered links bet
ween high-level researchers and ForestPARC
- Links with RSAC, NASA, USDA FS (RMRS, PNW)
- Several User-needs identified by the Users
Hosting Future ForestPARC Workshop entitled
Remote Sensing of Carbon Stocks What the User
Needs to Know
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Developing Strengths in Carbon and Fuels
Hosted Fire and Fuels Symposium 25th September
2004 Senator Craig (ID) Staffers of Burns (MT)
were in Attendance Symposia highlighted current
public-private partnerships
Falkowski M.J., Gessler, P.E., Morgan, P., Hudak,
A.T., and SMITH, A.M.S., Submitted, Evaluating
ASTER satellite imagery and gradient modeling for
mapping and characterizing wildland fire fuels,
Forest Ecology and Management SMITH A.M.S, Falkow
ski M.J., and Gessler, P.E., Submitted, Technical
Note ASTER VIS-NIR DN value conversion to
planetary reflectance, International Journal of
Remote Sensing SMITH, A.M.S., Wooster M.J.,Drake
N.A., Perry, G.L.W. and Dipotso, F.M., In Press,
Fire in African savanna Testing the impact of
incomplete combustion on pyrogenic emissions
estimates, Ecological Applications
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Instrument Development
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Instrument Development
Hyperspectral
Vierling is developing links with INEEL for
potential use of UAVs
Gessler Development of Aerial Hyperspectral
Sensor Current Seed Projects - Detection of
water stress in poplars - Sagebrush assessment
within Soulen Ranch, ID - White Ash Assessment
Smith, A.M.S. and Hudak, A.T., Submitted,
Estimating combustion of large downed woody
debris from residual white ash, International
Journal of Wildland Fire
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Wavelet Analysis of Plant/Tree Diameters
Applications/Collaborators Sagebrush (w/ U Wyomi
ng)
Juniper (Soulen Ranch, ID) Trees (USDA FS)
Strand, E., Smith A.M.S., Bunting, S.C.,
Vierling, L.A. and Hann, D.B., Submitted, Wavelet
estimation of Juniper Diameters within aerial
photography, Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment
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Remote Assessment of Head and Backfire types from
MODIS imagery
Smith A.M.S. and Wooster, M.J., Submitted, Remote
classification of head and backfire types from
MODIS fire radiative power observations,
International Journal of Wildland Fire
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The Expansion of ForestPARC
Proposals to include multiple ForestPARC
Institutions Will specifically seek collaboratio
n on instrument development and on extending
pilot research projects
Forthcoming Workshops and Meetings
- 2nd Annual Meeting Extension Plans (May 2005)
- Planned Workshops Remote Sensing of Carbon St
ocks What the
User Needs to Know Using Remote Sensing to Monito
r Fires and the Effects of
Fires