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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: OAK

 
    BAER Assessment Completion Date: 8/22/2022
    BAER Team GIS Analyst:  Tracy Tennant
    BAER Team Leader:  Kendal Young & Marcos Rios Rodriguez
    Soil Burn Severity Analyst(s):  Curtis Kvamme
    
    Original BARC256 thresholds:
        Unburned / Undetectable: <= 80
        Low: > 80 and <= 129
        Moderate: > 129 and <= 182
        High: > 182
        
    Soil Burn Severity thresholds (Main Fire):
        Unburned / Undetectable:  <= 80
        Low:  > 80 and <= 120
        Moderate:  > 120 and <= 172
        High:  > 172

    Soil Burn Severity thresholds (Reburn Portions):
        Unburned / Undetectable:  <= 80
        Low:  > 80 and <= 113
        Moderate:  > 113 and <= 164
        High:  > 164

    Soil Burn Severity thresholds (Small Meadow):
        Unburned / Undetectable:  <= 80
        Low:  > 80 and <= 165
        Moderate:  > 165 and <= 172
        High:  > 172

        
    Sequence of steps used to create Soil Burn Severity data:
The fire was divided into 3 strata to adjust separately, the "main fire" which is the largest area, the "reburn" area, which 
consists of the Carstens fire (2013) footprint, and portions of the Ferguson fire (2018) that reburned. Last, a meadow area
was pulled out to adjust the burn severity down to low. All were adjusted systematically with the breakpionts above, and 
then were mosaiced back together for the final SBS. 
    
    Additional Comments:
The reburn footprints, particularly high severity areas within the Carstens footprints were undermapped in the BARC.  Thresholds had
to be shifted substantially to better represent conditions on the ground.  I considered manually adjusting by polygon some areas, but 
I did not have enough hand-drawn mapping or a recon flight to do a good enough job of that.  I think the end result was 'good enough';
there may be more isolated pockets of high SBS in both reburn footprints on the ground, but the SBS map should be a good product for modeling 
watershed response.  For the other 'small meadow' strata, I could have done this via a manual location edit just as easily, but chose 
to just edit the raster.    
