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U.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service is a United States agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, founded in 1905.^[1]

Its EO role is as a satellite-data consumer and analysis producer for wildfire mapping, burned-area assessment, vegetation change detection, and landscape characterisation.^[2]^[3] LANDFIRE is a joint USFS/USGS national geospatial data program producing fuel, vegetation, and disturbance layers for wildfire management, with annual updates from 2024 and an LF2024 release cycle spanning 2025-2026.^[2]^[4] LANDFIRE also released 2025 Fall Seasonal Fuels and annual disturbance updates on September 30, 2026.^[5]^[6] Burned Area Reflectance Classification is a post-fire burn-severity product from the USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center, derived from Landsat and Sentinel-2 for rapid delivery to Burned Area Emergency Response teams; the archive covers 2001-2024.^[3] The Remote Sensing Applications Center in Salt Lake City receives satellite data and produces maps and reports for fire and resource management.^[7]

Sources

[1]120 Years Forest Serviceagency doc2026-06-20
[2]LANDFIRE 2024 Updateagency doc2026-06-20
[3]BARC Assessment Burned Areas 2001-2024 (USGS Data Catalog)agency doc2026-06-20
[4]LANDFIRE 2024 Update ver 2.0 March 2026 (USGS)agency doc2026-06-20
[5]LANDFIRE homepageagency doc2026-10-19
[6]LANDFIRE Dataagency doc2026-10-19
[7]Remote Sensing Applications Center (Wikipedia)community2026-06-20

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:us-forest-service,
  title = {U.S. Forest Service},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/us-forest-service}
}