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Dates of Images:
Post-Event: 6/29/2026, 7/01/2026, 7/02/2026, 7/04/2026, 7/6/2026, 7/9/2026, 7/11/2026, 7/14/2026
Pre-Event: 6/16/2026, 6/19/2026
Date of Next Image:
Unknown
Summary:
The True Color RGB composite provides a product of how the surface would look to the naked eye from space. The RGB is created using the red, green, and blue channels of the respective instrument.
The Color Infrared composite is created using the near-infrared, red, and green channels. The near-infrared gives the ability to see through thin clouds. Healthy vegetation is shown as red, water is in blue.
These pre-fire and post-fire images pair were analyzed for normalized burn ratio (NBR). The input images were generated from the Sentinel2- dataset at 10m resolution.
NBR is defined mathematically as (NIR – SWIR)/(NIR + SWIR) where NIR is near-infrared and SWIR is short-wave infrared. dNBR is computed by the difference between the pre-fire NBR and the post-fire NBR. More information on dNBR can be found here: https://un-spider.org/advisory-support/recommended-practices/recommended-practice-burn-severity/in-detail/normalized-burn-ratio.
Check fire containment and image dates for further context on image timing.
Federal permitted grazing land maps from the US Forest Service and Department of Interior - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are shown in the web map. For more information: https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::range-unit-allotment-3/about & https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BLM-EGIS::blm-colorado-grazing-allotments/about
Suggested Use:
The True Color RGB provides a product of how the surface would look to the naked eye from space. The True Color RGB is produced using the 3 visible wavelength bands (red, green, and blue) from the respective sensor. Some minor atmospheric corrections have occurred.
A Color Infrared composite depicts healthy vegetation as red, water as blue. Some minor atmospheric corrections have occurred.
NBR is commonly used as a proxy to indicate areas which have charred vegetation. Darker areas (more negative values) in the NBR image more strongly represent the presence of burned vegetation. Since the dNBR considers the condition of the scene before the fire occurred, the resulting value has been used as a proxy for burn severity. Higher dNBR values represent a proxy for greater burn severity. Negative dNBR values may represent a re-greening of or growth of vegetation in between pre and post imagery.
The use of this dNBR product as a quantitative metric of burn severity at the time of posting this dataset should be strongly caveated. This is due to several dNBR limitations:
The spectral band selections used for dNBR calculations, and the implication of changes observed following fire in those wavelengths, primarily pertain to how vegetation spectral signatures change in NIR and SWIR wavelengths following charring. Because of this, dNBR may not accurately describe burned surfaces that are not vegetation (e.g. human built infrastructure).
This dataset has not been validated by independent burn severity assessments.
The degree to which dNBR is accurately determined depends on careful selection of pre and post event imagery. An effort was made to use the highest quality imagery (i.e. cloud free) with representative conditions for each scene; however, it is unknown at the time of this posting how selection of different pre/post image pairs could affect the derived dNBR values.
Satellite/Sensor:
MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) on European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A/2B satellites
Resolution:
True Color: 10 meters
Credits:
NASA/MSFC, USGS, ESA Copernicus
Esri REST Endpoint:
See layers below.
WMS Endpoint:
See individual layer pages.
Dates of Images:
Post-Event: 6/29/2026, 7/01/2026, 7/02/2026, 7/04/2026, 7/6/2026, 7/9/2026, 7/11/2026, 7/14/2026
Pre-Event: 6/16/2026, 6/19/2026
Date of Next Image:
Unknown
Summary:
The True Color RGB composite provides a product of how the surface would look to the naked eye from space. The RGB is created using the red, green, and blue channels of the respective instrument.
The Color Infrared composite is created using the near-infrared, red, and green channels. The near-infrared gives the ability to see through thin clouds. Healthy vegetation is shown as red, water is in blue.
These pre-fire and post-fire images pair were analyzed for normalized burn ratio (NBR). The input images were generated from the Sentinel2- dataset at 10m resolution.
NBR is defined mathematically as (NIR – SWIR)/(NIR + SWIR) where NIR is near-infrared and SWIR is short-wave infrared. dNBR is computed by the difference between the pre-fire NBR and the post-fire NBR. More information on dNBR can be found here: https://un-spider.org/advisory-support/recommended-practices/recommended-practice-burn-severity/in-detail/normalized-burn-ratio.
Check fire containment and image dates for further context on image timing.
Federal permitted grazing land maps from the US Forest Service and Department of Interior - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are shown in the web map. For more information: https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::range-unit-allotment-3/about & https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BLM-EGIS::blm-colorado-grazing-allotments/about
Suggested Use:
The True Color RGB provides a product of how the surface would look to the naked eye from space. The True Color RGB is produced using the 3 visible wavelength bands (red, green, and blue) from the respective sensor. Some minor atmospheric corrections have occurred.
A Color Infrared composite depicts healthy vegetation as red, water as blue. Some minor atmospheric corrections have occurred.
NBR is commonly used as a proxy to indicate areas which have charred vegetation. Darker areas (more negative values) in the NBR image more strongly represent the presence of burned vegetation. Since the dNBR considers the condition of the scene before the fire occurred, the resulting value has been used as a proxy for burn severity. Higher dNBR values represent a proxy for greater burn severity. Negative dNBR values may represent a re-greening of or growth of vegetation in between pre and post imagery.
The use of this dNBR product as a quantitative metric of burn severity at the time of posting this dataset should be strongly caveated. This is due to several dNBR limitations:
The spectral band selections used for dNBR calculations, and the implication of changes observed following fire in those wavelengths, primarily pertain to how vegetation spectral signatures change in NIR and SWIR wavelengths following charring. Because of this, dNBR may not accurately describe burned surfaces that are not vegetation (e.g. human built infrastructure).
This dataset has not been validated by independent burn severity assessments.
The degree to which dNBR is accurately determined depends on careful selection of pre and post event imagery. An effort was made to use the highest quality imagery (i.e. cloud free) with representative conditions for each scene; however, it is unknown at the time of this posting how selection of different pre/post image pairs could affect the derived dNBR values.
Satellite/Sensor:
MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) on European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A/2B satellites
Resolution:
True Color: 10 meters
Credits:
NASA/MSFC, USGS, ESA Copernicus
Esri REST Endpoint:
See layers below.
WMS Endpoint:
See individual layer pages.