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Table 2 Selected factors affecting quantification of fire severity and recovery are grouped into four conditions of the methodology.

From: Ecological and Sampling Constraints on Defining Landscape Fire Severity

 

Factors Relevant to Modeling Fire Severity

Conditions

General Factors

Fire Specific

Spatial

resolution

aggregation of effects

 

autocorrelation

patch size, contagion

Temporal

site phenology

fire completion

 

moisture content

time since fire

 

sun angle, snow

fire seasonality

 

sampling interval

 

Radiometric

transmittance

smoke

 

available bandwidths

range of burn variation

 

reflectance

specific bandwidth response

Geographic

geo-registration

ecotype properties

 

topography

elevation gradients