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Team theme, tentative area of interest, or question:

Wildfires, post-disturbance reorganization, zombie forests

Day 1: March 12, 2024 - CU Boulder

Selected scientific question:

What variables are best at predicting whether an area affected by wildfire in the Southern Rockies will recover as a forest or transition into shrub or grassland?

Day 2: March 13, 2024 - CU Boulder

  • Established data sources: CBI, LCMAP, CU Boulder Disturbance Stack, CHELSA
  • Loaded/downloaded data, and established the data processing pipeline and end product: a tabular dataset with each pixel relating to a disturbance event and the corresponding features, with the ground truth label being 1 = recovered to forest and 0 = recovered to shrub/grassland (after a 10 year period)
  • preparing analysis using XGBoost and SHAP analysis for feature importance ranking

Day 3: March 14, 2024 - Virtual due to snow :(

Last update: 2024-05-09