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Nowadays, Earth Observation systems provide a multitude of heterogeneous remote sensing data. How to manage such richness leveraging its complementarity is a crucial chal- lenge in modern remote sensing analysis. Data Fusion techniques deal…

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Given the increasing prevalence of wildland fires in the Western US, there is a critical need to develop tools to understand and accurately predict burn severity. We develop a machine learning model to predict post-fire burn severity using…