Title: Thomas Fire Data Analysis: Visualizing the Thomas Fire's Burn Scar and AQI impacts

Author: Flora Hamilton, Master of Environmental Data Science

Repo Link: https://github.com/floraham/thomas_fire_analysis

This repository contains a Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) using Python to visualize the Thomas Fire's Burn scar and AQI impacts in Santa Barbara, CA. We use three datasets to conduct this analysis (two for the burn scar visualization, one for AQI).

Dataset descriptions:

Landsat Burn Scar Data

• A simplified collection of bands (red, green, blue, near-infrared and shortwave infrared) from the Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 atmosperically corrected surface reflectance data, collected by the Landsat 8 satellite.

California Fire Perimeters

• A shapefile of fire perimeters in California during 2017. The complete file can be accessed in the CA state geoportal.

AQI Data

• We use Air Quality Index (AQI) data from the US Environmental Protection Agency to visualize the impact on the AQI of the 2017 Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara County.