Jay D. Miller

TL;DR: In this paper, a relative version of the dNBR based on field data from 14 fires in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, USA was presented, which can be used for landscape level analysis.

TL;DR: The authors showed that a large area (approximately 120000 km2) of California and western Nevada experienced a notable increase in the extent of forest stand-replacing (high severity) fire between 1984 and 2006.

TL;DR: Miller et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a relativized version of the Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to remove the biasing effect of the pre-fire condition, which allows creating categorical classifications for fires occurring in similar vegetation types without acquiring additional calibration field data on each fire.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate interactions between successive naturally occurring fires and assess to what extent the environments in which fires burn influence these interactions, and demonstrate that fire as a landscape process can exhibit self-limiting characteristics in an upper elevation Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used satellite-derived estimates of fire severity from the three most widely distributed SNFPA forest types to examine the trend in percent high severity and high-severity fire area for all wildfires ≥80 ha that occurred during the 1984 to 2010 period.