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The following section should be completed after the BARC has been field validated by the BAER team and this entire metadata file should be returned to GTAC with the Soil Burn Severity data.

Fire name: PIPELINE

 
    BAER Assessment Completion Date:6/23/22
    BAER Team GIS Analyst: Mark Christiano
    BAER Team Leader: Eric Schroder, Matthew O'Neill
    Soil Burn Severity Analyst(s): Robert Ballard, Kelly Mott-Lacroix, Kyle Paffett
    
    Original BARC256 thresholds:
        Unburned / Undetectable: <= 62
        Low: > 62 and <= 116
        Moderate: > 116 and <= 207
        High: > 207
        
    Soil Burn Severity thresholds Schultz fire reburn:
        Unburned / Undetectable: <= 62
        Low: > 62 and <= 100
        Moderate: > 100 and <= 194
        High: > 195

    Soil Burn Severity thresholds Pipeline fire newly burned area:
        Unburned / Undetectable: <= 62
        Low: > 62 and <= 114
        Moderate: > 114 and <= 185
        High: > 185
        
    Sequence of steps used to create Soil Burn Severity data:

	Due to site specific fire effects to soils in the Schultz fire burned area (2010), the BARC 256 image from the Pipeline fire was split into two images: A Schultz fire reburn image and a Pipeline fire newly burned area image.  The moderate and high burn severity were extracted from the Schultz Fire SBS and used to create the Schultz Fire Burned Area.  It was determined that the low and unburned portions of Schultz, with 12 years since the fire, would have no signifigant impact on how the Pipeline Fire burned.

The Soil Burn Severity thresholds were adjusted for both images to reflect field observations collected on 6/21/22 and 6/22/22. Soil Burn Severity observations were stratified across all BARC severity levels in the burned area, including unburned observations outside the fire perimeter. The two datasets were then merged to create a single Soil Burn Severity image for the Pipeline fire.
 	
    
    Additional Comments: Plot locations and photos avalaible upon request