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Executive Summary 1
1 Range Vegetation Assessment in the Big Desert,Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho 2005 (Gregory et al.) 3
2 Range Vegetation Assessment in the Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho 2006 (Underwood et al.) 9
3 Range Vegetation Assessment in the Big Desert, Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho 2007 (Anderson et al.) 17
4 Development of a Remote Sensing Based Initial Assessment Burn Severity Model (Norton et al.) 27
5 Comparison of Field Methods (Norton) 45
6 The Use of Remote Sensing Indices to Determine Wildland Burn Severity in Semiarid Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands Using Landsat ETM+ and SPOT 5 (Norton) 51
7 Field Evaluation and Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis of Fire-Induced Water Repellent Soils and Burn Severity in Southern Idaho Rangelands (Finley) 93
8 Relative Suitability of Indices Derived from Landsat ETM+ and SPOT 5 for Detecting Fire Severity in Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands (Norton et al.) 187
9 Fire Severity Modeling of Sagebrush-Steppe Rangelands in Southeastern Idaho (Weber et al.) 205
10 Comparing Fire Severity Models from Post-Fire and Pre/Post-Fire Differenced Imagery (Weber et al.) 219
11 Fire Severity Model Accuracy Using Short-term, Rapid Assessment Versus Long-term, Anniversary Date Assessment (Weber et al.) 231
12 Post-fire Recovery of Sagebrush Communities: Assessment using SPOT5 and Very Large-Scale Aerial Imagery (Sankey et al.) 245
13 Evaluation of Alternative Simple Band Ratios (Nelson and Weber) 255
14 Resilience of Satellite-Based Measures of Greenness to Fire Decreases with Aridity in Sagebrush-Steppe Rangelands (Baum and Germino) 261
15 Improving Classification Accuracy Assessments with Statistical Bootstrap Resampling Techniques (Weber and Langille) 275
16 Assessment of Juniper Encroachment: An Approach Using Landsat Satellite Imagery and GIS datasets (Sankey and Germino) 289
17 Developing a Geospatial Search Tool Using a Relational Database Implementation of the FGDC CSDGM Model (Goh et al.) 301
18 Evaluation and Design of a Relational Database Implementation of the FGDC CSDGM Model Using Various Database Engines Along with XML Parser Design (Goh) 309
19 Testing Usability of an Active Server Page-based Geospatial Search Engine Tool (Goh) 321
20 Contribution of Deep Soil Water to Invasion of Sagebrush Steppe by Euphorbia esula Following Fire (Germino et al.) 331
21 Fire Effects on Wind Erosion in Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands of the Snake River Plain (Sankey et al.) 343