The use of remotely-sensed wildland fire radiation to infer the fates of carbon during biomass combustion – the need to understand and quantify a fire’s mass and energy budget

Matthew B Dickinson1, Mark A Dietenberger2, Evan A Ellicott, PhD3, Colin Hardy4, Andrew T Hudak5, Robert Kremens6, William Mathews7, Wilfrid Schroeder8, Alistair MS Smith9 and Eva Kristina Strand9, (1)USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH, United States, (2)US Forest Service Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, (6)Rochester Institute of Techno, Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States, (7)University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, ID, United States, (8)NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States, (9)University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States