Gallery

Creek Fire near Shaver Lake, California, 2020. Image of untreated landscape that has undergone a high fire intensity and a high burn severity. Over a foot of ash on the ground and trees have canopies completely burnt. The horizon shows a layer of dense smoke from the fire occurring to the North.
400 ft long fuel break line (light green canopy in center of image) surrounded by high burn severity of untreated landscape with scorched canopies from a higher burn intensity; Shaver Lake Located at the top of the image. 2020
Orthophoto of the Creek fire, showing the clear delineation between the prescribed managed landscape and untreated region
Example of pile burn bundle that is used for prescribed burn
The team conducting fieldwork and drone measurements at the Creek Fire

The SPARx project is funded by the UC Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research And Training 2020 Awards under the project: Transforming Prescribed Fire Practices for California led by Prof. Tirtha Banerjee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine. It involves collaboration among UC Irvine (lead institute), UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UC ANR, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.