ARSET - Assessing the Impacts of Fires on Watershed Health

This advanced-level training will focus on using remote sensing observations for monitoring post-fire impacts on watershed health. Specifically, this training will highlight uses of NASA Earth observations (EO) for pre-fire land cover mapping, watershed delineation and stream mapping, post-fire burn severity mapping, and pre- and post-fire riverine and freshwater water quality. This three-part training will highlight case studies that use remote sensing data for assessing the impacts of fires on watersheds. Likewise, this training will also provide participants with hands-on exercises for using NASA EO for these assessments within the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Google Earth Engine.

The course is divided in three sessions:

1. July 6th - Satellite Observations and Tools for Fire Risk 
2. July 11th - Earth Observations and the Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for Assessing Post-Fire Water Quality in Watersheds
3. July 13th - Using Google Earth Engine to Monitor Post-Fire Impacts

To have a look at the full programme, click here. 

By the end of the training, attendees will be able to:

• Distinguish, compare, and contrast the biophysical conditions pre-and post-fire
• Analyze the key fire science criteria to select the appropriate data from satellites/instruments for a given watershed
• Acquire land use & land cover maps for the region of interest
• Select river basin and sub-basin boundaries for their region of interest
• Recognize how to develop a river basin-scale model using SWAT to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and groundwater

To register for the training, visit ARSET's website.