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#           Eyes on Earth Episode 63 - ECOSTRESS and Post-Fire Recovery      

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      By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center       December 13, 2021    

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how a new spaceborne sensor aids the study of wildfire recovery.

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**Summary**: Fires can be destructive or healthy for a landscape—often both. Fires have grown larger and more destructive in recent years, though, thanks to human activity, climate change, and a host of other factors. Satellite data helps us to map and monitor fire activity, but the study of post-fire plant life using remote sensing data goes further than fire mapping. On this episode of Eyes on Earth, we hear from Dr. Helen Poulos, who used data from the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station, (ECOSTRESS), to study Arizona Pine Oak forest 5-7 years after severe fire. Dr. Poulos and her collaborators at Northern Arizona University and the University of Maine at Farmington learned that post-fire shrublands had surprisingly high rates of water use. ECOSTRESS data are available through NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center or LP DAAC, which is located at EROS.

**Guest:**Dr. Helen Poulos, forest ecologist, Wesleyan University

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** December 13, 2021

**More on ECOSTRESS:**
                                - Helen Poulos biography
                                - ECOSTRESS
                                - USGS, EROS Process ‘First Light’ Images from Landsat 9
                                - Wildfire severity and vegetation recovery drive post-fire evapotranspiration in a southwestern pine-oak forest, Arizona, USA

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#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how a new spaceborne sensor aids the study of wildfire recovery.

View Media Details

View

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**Summary**: Fires can be destructive or healthy for a landscape—often both. Fires have grown larger and more destructive in recent years, though, thanks to human activity, climate change, and a host of other factors. Satellite data helps us to map and monitor fire activity, but the study of post-fire plant life using remote sensing data goes further than fire mapping. On this episode of Eyes on Earth, we hear from Dr. Helen Poulos, who used data from the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station, (ECOSTRESS), to study Arizona Pine Oak forest 5-7 years after severe fire. Dr. Poulos and her collaborators at Northern Arizona University and the University of Maine at Farmington learned that post-fire shrublands had surprisingly high rates of water use. ECOSTRESS data are available through NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center or LP DAAC, which is located at EROS.

**Guest:**Dr. Helen Poulos, forest ecologist, Wesleyan University

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** December 13, 2021

**More on ECOSTRESS:**
                                - Helen Poulos biography
                                - ECOSTRESS
                                - USGS, EROS Process ‘First Light’ Images from Landsat 9
                                - Wildfire severity and vegetation recovery drive post-fire evapotranspiration in a southwestern pine-oak forest, Arizona, USA

### Contacts

#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

### Explore Search

                      - Climate
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - LP DAAC
                      - Arizona
                      - chiricahua mountains
                      - ECOSTRESS
                      - Evapotranspiration
                      - Remote Sensing
                      - podcasts
                      - Eyes on Earth
                      - fire
                      - wildfire

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