FIRE (CONT)

The university is working with the Forest Service's Remote Sensing Applications Center to develop the new burn severity software. Principal investigators for the project are Thomas Bobbe and Mark Finco of the Remote Sensing Applications Center, Annette Parsons of the Bureau of Land Management and Rob Sohlberg of the University of Maryland. Also participating in the burn severity project from the University of Maryland are department of geography researchers Bethany Semeiks and Mark Carroll. The project is funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, part of the National Interagency Fire Center, and the NASA Solid Earth and Natural Hazards program.