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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: KLONDIKE

 
    BAER Assessment Completion Date: 10/11/2018
    BAER Team GIS Analyst: Dorothy Thomas
    BAER Team Leader: Kyle Wright
    Soil Burn Severity Analyst(s): Todd Reinwald
    
    Original BARC256 thresholds:
        Unburned / Undetectable: <=80
        Low: >80 and <=117
        Moderate: >117 and <=211
        High: >211
        
    Soil Burn Severity thresholds (within the 2002 Biscut fire scar):
        Unburned / Undetectable: <= 83
        Low: > 83 and <= 160
        Moderate: >160  and <= 254
        High: > 254
     
   Soil Burn Severity thresholds (Outside the 2002 Biscut fire scar):
        Unburned / Undetectable: <= 83
        Low: > 83 and <= 140
        Moderate: >140  and <= 254
        High: > 254

   
    Sequence of steps used to create Soil Burn Severity data:

1) Masked BARC image to Fire Boundary to produce 2 images, inside and outside 2002 Biscut fire, reprojected output into: NAD_1983_USFS_R6_Albers 
2) Reclassify each image as described above
3) Mosaic images back together
4) Majority Filter (3 passes) to remove single pixel variation
5) Calculated attributes (Soil Burn Severity and Acres)

    Additional Comments:
Overall, the BARC image over estimated High, Moderate and Unburned. Within the 2002 Biscut Fire burn scar, Moderate severity was even more over estimated.
We processed the fire area within the 2002 Biscut Fire scar seperatley as we believed the pre-fire shrub cover in the biscut scar, may have appeared to be 
heavier canopy loss than the heavy pre-fire canopy cover outside the Biscut fire scar.

BARC to SBS Processing documented in Model Builder: 
T:\FS\NFS\RogueSiskiyou\Project\RRS\2520BAER\BAER2018\GIS\TaylorKlondikeBAER\Tool\Toolbox\BAERTools.tbx\BARC_SBS\TaylorKlondikeBARCUpdate0925image

Field Verification points and photos used for SBS mapping:   
T:\FS\NFS\RogueSiskiyou\Project\RRS\2520BAER\BAER2018\GIS\TaylorKlondikeBAER\LayerFile\FieldObservationsSoilsGroupSBS.lyr
T:\FS\NFS\RogueSiskiyou\Project\RRS\2520BAER\BAER2018\GIS\TaylorKlondikeBAER\LayerFile\PhotoPointsGeotagged.lyr (where they overlap FieldObservationsSoilsGroupSBS.lyr)

All Field data colleted by BAER Team
T:\FS\NFS\RogueSiskiyou\Project\RRS\2520BAER\BAER2018\GIS\TaylorKlondikeBAER\LayerFile\FieldObservationsAll.lyr