Fire Growth Trajectories
The first methodological task is to represent each fire as a trajectory rather than a final burn scar.
What this means
For each reconstructed fire event, the project aims to recover time series such as:
- perimeter through time
- burned area through time
- shape and anisotropy metrics through time
This turns fire growth into something we can measure, compare, and model.
Why it matters
Without trajectories, there is no way to ask:
- when scaling appears
- whether fires share a common growth regime
- how perimeter geometry changes as fires expand
Data sources
The trajectory layer depends primarily on:
FIREDevent reconstruction- satellite burned-area products
- environmental alignment through
CubeDynamics