Land Cover Map for the Eastern Jemez Region

Suspended sediment transport in an ephemeral stream following wildfire

“…Local geologic and physiographic factors exert important controls on the distribution of fires, vegetation, and soil properties in the study area. Before the fire, vegetation on the eastern flank of the Jemez Mountains consisted of ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa ) and mixed coniferous forest; the plateau and canyons are dominated by ponderosa pine forest and piñon juniper woodlands [ Allen , 1989; McKown et al , 2003]. Prior to 1900, both ponderosa pine and mixed conifer areas in the Jemez Mountains were characterized by high‐frequency, low‐intensity fire regimes; mixed conifer forests also sustained occasional crown fires [ Touchan et al , 1996].…”

Burn Severities, Fire Intensities, and Impacts to Major Vegetation Types from the Cerro Grande Fire

“…With regard to map accuracy, another point of comparison was completed in the aftermath of the Cerro Grande Fire. A new map was produced from LANDSAT data in 2001 to partially resolve the dramatic land use changes that were created by the Cerro Grande Fire (McKown et al 2003). One of the versions of this map product, using a quarter-hectare minimum mapping unit and a taxonomic approach to characterize the land cover types, achieved an accuracy assessment of 74.8 percent.…”

A Wildfire Behavior Modeling System at Los Alamos National Laboratory for Operational Applications

“…In addition, the costs of fieldwork are alleviated by incorporating the goals of several projects into a single, comprehensive data collection activity. The recently completed land cover map for the eastern Jemez Mountains is one example where costs were minimized by adopting field data for multiple applications (McKown et al 2003).…”