amart90/WildfireTreeMortality

The WildfireTreeMortality project is a legacy research repository, approximately 9 years old, with negligible community engagement (2 stars). While the fusion of LiDAR and Landsat data was a significant research topic in the mid-2010s, this specific implementation lacks the technical moat or active development required to compete in the current landscape. Modern alternatives now leverage Google Earth Engine (GEE), Sentinel-2 data, and deep learning architectures (CNNs/Transformers) which provide significantly higher accuracy and scalability than the traditional statistical or machine learning approaches likely contained here. The project suffers from extreme obsolescence risk; the geospatial domain has moved toward cloud-native processing (COGs, STAC) and managed platforms like Microsoft Planetary Computer or Google Earth Engine, which have effectively absorbed the 'infrastructure' layer of this problem. For an investor or analyst, this represents a historical reference implementation rather than a viable or defensible software asset. Its displacement has already occurred via more robust, API-driven environmental intelligence platforms.