Report for AK PANOCESU Collaborative Effort to Develop a Statewide Wildfire Exposure Map (L22AC00566)

Abstract

To create a 2023 wildfire exposure map by updating the 2014 NASA ABoVE land cover data with recent wildfire activity at the statewide scale and make this map available online to the wildfire community for decision making. Also, to develop a crosswalk between the ABoVE landcover and LANDFIRE EVT to generate a statewide map that has extended coverage. Then test the performance of each wildfire exposure layer. An ABOVE land cover update is still expected by the end of the year that will be based on new Landsat remote sensed imagery and the coverage will be expanded in Alaska.