You wouldn't just Download An Ecosystem.... would you?
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/49932334
Try these tools out for yourself in your web browser!!!!
^ the tutorial for this tool is very thoughtfully done for people that aren't super comfortable with code, worth a look at just for that I think.
https://storage.googleapis.com/fire-recovery-web/dev/fireSeverity.html
https://dse-disturbance-toolbox.org/tools/disturbance-severity/
https://dse-disturbance-toolbox.org/tools/
Last year, the Park Service used the research group’s burn severity assessment tool for the first time after the Eureka Fire in Joshua Tree National Park, which burned just over 200 acres.
“We were able to do a quick assessment of fire severity and help the park with some analysis of how much vegetation and which types of vegetation were within the burned area, and which were in the more severe parts of the fire,” Zomer said.
The park also used the tool after the 2025 Black Rock Fire, which started near a campground in the park and burned 72 acres.
“We used DSE’s Disturbance Severity Tool twice last year to assess post-fire conditions following the Eureka and Black Rock fires,” said Nick Graver, the botany and vegetation monitoring program lead at Joshua Tree National Park and a graduate student in UC Riverside’s Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. “Combined with field assessments conducted by park biologists, it provided the foundation for evaluating fire severity and developing recovery plans for both incidents.”
In addition to the burn severity assessment tool, researchers are now developing a platform to model the future outcomes of potential recovery actions. The platform, called Josh, just launched this year and will be available when the next wildfire sweeps through either park. The park also used the tool after the 2025 Black Rock Fire, which started near a campground in the park and burned 72 acres.
“We used DSE’s Disturbance Severity Tool twice last year to assess post-fire conditions following the Eureka and Black Rock fires,” said Nick Graver, the botany and vegetation monitoring program lead at Joshua Tree National Park and a graduate student in UC Riverside’s Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. “Combined with field assessments conducted by park biologists, it provided the foundation for evaluating fire severity and developing recovery plans for both incidents.”
In addition to the burn severity assessment tool, researchers are now developing a platform to model the future outcomes of potential recovery actions. The platform, called Josh, just launched this year and will be available when the next wildfire sweeps through either park.
You don't know Josh... but you should! Josh is pretty cool actually.______**___**