Guidebook On Landfire Fuels Data Acquisition Critique Modification Maintenance And Model Calibration

Author : Richard D. Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : FARSITE.
ISBN : OSU:32435081678799

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Guidebook on LANDFIRE Fuels Data Acquisition, Critique, Modification, Maintenance, and Model Calibration by Richard D. Stratton Pdf

With the advent of LANDFIRE fuels layers, an increasing number of specialists are using the data in a variety of fire modeling systems. However, a comprehensive guide on acquiring, critiquing, and editing (ACE) geospatial fuels data does not exist. This paper provides guidance on ACE as well as on assembling a geospatial fuels team, model calibration, and maintaining geospatial data and documentation. The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool (LFDAT), an ArcMap extension, and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) are the primary tools outlined in this guide to obtain the Fire Area Simulator (FARSITE) landscape file (LCP) for geospatial fuels application. Other useful geographic information system (GIS) data acquisition websites and layers for geospatial fire analysis are also provided. Critiquing the data consists of (1) a tabular critique of the inputs using LCP Critique and (2) a geospatial critique of the inputs and outputs using FlamMap and ArcMap. Detailed information is provided on many of the layers that constitute the LCP (fuel model, canopy cover, stand height, crown base height, crown bulk density). Inputs are spatially critiqued using FlamMap and ArcMap in combination with the existing vegetation type layer. Outputs critiqued include flame length, rate of spread, fireline intensity, crown fire activity, and fire growth. Compare-Models-Four and Minimum Travel Time (MTT) are discussed, the WFDSS landscape editor is demonstrated as a tool to edit and update an LCP and a section on model calibration using FARSITE and MTT is included. The paper concludes with direction and discussion on data maintenance, documentation, and complexities of a national fuels dataset for field application.

Author : Richard D. Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : FARSITE.
ISBN : OCLC:318550041

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Guidebook on LANDFIRE Fuels Data Acquisition, Critique, Modification, Maintenance, and Model Calibration by Richard D. Stratton Pdf

With the advent of LANDFIRE fuels layers, an increasing number of specialists are using the data in a variety of fire modeling systems. However, a comprehensive guide on acquiring, critiquing, and editing (ACE) geospatial fuels data does not exist. This paper provides guidance on ACE as well as on assembling a geospatial fuels team, model calibration, and maintaining geospatial data and documentation. The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool (LFDAT), an ArcMap extension, and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) are the primary tools outlined in this guide to obtain the Fire Area Simulator (FARSITE) landscape file (LCP) for geospatial fuels application. Other useful geographic information system (GIS) data acquisition websites and layers for geospatial fire analysis are also provided. Critiquing the data consists of (1) a tabular critique of the inputs using LCP Critique and (2) a geospatial critique of the inputs and outputs using FlamMap and ArcMap. Detailed information is provided on many of the layers that constitute the LCP (fuel model, canopy cover, stand height, crown base height, crown bulk density). Inputs are spatially critiqued using FlamMap and ArcMap in combination with the existing vegetation type layer. Outputs critiqued include flame length, rate of spread, fireline intensity, crown fire activity, and fire growth. Compare-Models-Four and Minimum Travel Time (MTT) are discussed, the WFDSS landscape editor is demonstrated as a tool to edit and update an LCP and a section on model calibration using FARSITE and MTT is included. The paper concludes with direction and discussion on data maintenance, documentation, and complexities of a national fuels dataset for field application.

Author : Brett H. Davis
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437939040

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Retrospective Fire Modeling by Brett H. Davis Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Land management agencies (LMA) need to understand and monitor the consequences of their fire suppression decisions. The authors developed a framework for retrospective fire behavior modeling and impact assessment to determine where ignitions would have spread had they not been suppressed, and to assess the cumulative effects that would have resulted. This guidebook is used for applying this methodology and is for those interested in quantifying the impacts of fire suppression. Land managers who use this methodology can track the cumulative effects of suppression, frame future suppression decisions and cost-benefit analyses in the context of past experiences, and communicate tradeoffs to the public, non-gov. organ., and LMA.

Author : Linda Makovicka Osvaldova,Frank Markert,Samuel L. Zelinka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030412357

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Wood & Fire Safety by Linda Makovicka Osvaldova,Frank Markert,Samuel L. Zelinka Pdf

This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts from the field of Wood Science & Fire. It looks into the properties of various tree species across the continents affecting the fire-technical properties of wood and wood-based materials, its modifications, fire-retardant methods and other technological processes that have an impact on wood ignition and burning. The results of these findings have a direct impact on Building Construction and Design describing the fire safety of wooden buildings, mainly large and multi-story ones. The results of these experiments and findings may be applied, or are directly implemented into Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety which makes the application of wood and wood materials in buildings possible, while maintaining strict fire regulations. One part of the contributions focuses on the symbiosis of the material and the fire-fighting technologies. Wood burning has its own specific features, therefore, the fire protection technologies need to be updated regularly. It also includes the issue of the intervention of fire-fighting and rescue teams in the fires of wooden buildings. Presentations deal with the issue of forest fires influenced by the climate changes, relief, fuel models based on the type and the age of the forest stand.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556039564968

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Klamath National Forest (N.F.), Hi-Grouse Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CUB:U183050907317

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New Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard D. Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fire risk assessment
ISBN : WISC:89094223039

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Guidance on Spatial Wildland Fire Analysis by Richard D. Stratton Pdf

"There is an increasing need for spatial wildland fire analysis in support of incident management, fuel treatment planning, wildland-urban assessment, and land management plan development. However, little guidance has been provided to the field in the form of training, support, or research examples. This paper provides guidance to fire managers, planners, specialists, and analysts in the use of "models" (FARSITE, FlamMap, RERAP-Term), tools/programs (KCFAST, RAWS, FireFamily Plus, WindWizard), and procedures for spatial fire analysis. The approach includes a brief discussion about models and their assumptions and limitations, historical fire and weather analysis, landscape file data acquisition and development, landscape file and model output critique, and model calibration."

Author : Joe H. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fire management
ISBN : MINN:31951D03001418R

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Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models by Joe H. Scott Pdf

Author : Arnold I. Finklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Meteorological instruments
ISBN : MINN:31951P00384726G

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Weather Station Handbook-- by Arnold I. Finklin Pdf

Author : James M. Vose,Kier D. Klepzig
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466572751

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Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options by James M. Vose,Kier D. Klepzig Pdf

Forest land managers face the challenges of preparing their forests for the impacts of climate change. However, climate change adds a new dimension to the task of developing and testing science-based management options to deal with the effects of stressors on forest ecosystems in the southern United States. The large spatial scale and complex interactions make traditional experimental approaches difficult. Yet, the current progression of climate change science offers new insights from recent syntheses, models, and experiments, providing enough information to start planning now for a future that will likely include an increase in disturbances and rapid changes in forest conditions. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options: A Guide for Natural Resource Managers in Southern Forest Ecosystems provides a comprehensive analysis of forest management options to guide natural resource management in the face of future climate change. Topics include potential climate change impacts on wildfire, insects, diseases, and invasives, and how these in turn might affect the values of southern forests that include timber, fiber, and carbon; water quality and quantity; species and habitats; and recreation. The book also considers southern forest carbon sequestration, vulnerability to biological threats, and migration of native tree populations due to climate change. This book utilizes the most relevant science and brings together science experts and land managers from various disciplines and regions throughout the south to combine science, models, and on-the-ground experience to develop management options. Providing a link between current management actions and future management options that would anticipate a changing climate, the authors hope to ensure a broader range of options for managing southern forests and protecting their values in the future.

Author : Thomas T. Veblen,William L. Baker,Gloria Montenegro,Thomas W. Swetnam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387217109

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Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas by Thomas T. Veblen,William L. Baker,Gloria Montenegro,Thomas W. Swetnam Pdf

Both fire and climatic variability have monumental impacts on the dynamics of temperate ecosystems. These impacts can sometimes be extreme or devastating as seen in recent El Nino/La Nina cycles and in uncontrolled fire occurrences. This volume brings together research conducted in western North and South America, areas of a great deal of collaborative work on the influence of people and climate change on fire regimes. In order to give perspective to patterns of change over time, it emphasizes the integration of paleoecological studies with studies of modern ecosystems. Data from a range of spatial scales, from individual plants to communities and ecosystems to landscape and regional levels, are included. Contributions come from fire ecology, paleoecology, biogeography, paleoclimatology, landscape and ecosystem ecology, ecological modeling, forest management, plant community ecology and plant morphology. The book gives a synthetic overview of methods, data and simulation models for evaluating fire regime processes in forests, shrublands and woodlands and assembles case studies of fire, climate and land use histories. The unique approach of this book gives researchers the benefits of a north-south comparison as well as the integration of paleoecological histories, current ecosystem dynamics and modeling of future changes.

Author : David V. Sandberg
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437915570

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Wildland Fire in Ecosystems by David V. Sandberg Pdf

Wildland fire is an integral part of ecosystem mgmt. and is essential in maintaining functional ecosystems, but air pollutants emitted from those fires can be harmful to human health and welfare. This review of what is known about the effects of fire on air quality will assist those in the fire and air quality mgmt. communities. Contents: (1) Intro.; Scope; Framework; Prior Work; Changes in Fire Policy; (2) Air Quality Regulations and Fire; (3) Overview of Air Pollution from Fire; (4) Characterization of Emissions from Fires; (5) Transport, Dispersion, and Modeling of Fire Emissions; (6) Atmospheric and Plume Chemistry; (7) Estimating the Air Quality Impacts of Fire; (8) Consequences of Fire on Air Quality; (9) Recommend. for Future Research. Illus.

Author : S. Tahir Qadri
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ecology
ISBN : NYPL:33433074225867

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Fire, Smoke, and Haze by S. Tahir Qadri Pdf

This publication, a joint effort of ADB and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), brings together the current knowledge about land and forest fires, examines their causes and impacts with particular reference to Southeast Asia, and suggests what could happen in the future.

Author : Fuling Bian,Yichun Xie,Xiaohui Cui,Yixin Zeng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642450259

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Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem by Fuling Bian,Yichun Xie,Xiaohui Cui,Yixin Zeng Pdf

This two volume set (CCIS 398 and 399) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in November 2013. The 136 papers presented, in addition to 4 keynote speeches and 5 invited sessions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 522 submissions. The papers are divided into 5 sessions: smart city in resource management and sustainable ecosystem, spatial data acquisition through RS and GIS in resource management and sustainable ecosystem, ecological and environmental data processing and management, advanced geospatial model and analysis for understanding ecological and environmental process, applications of geo-informatics in resource management and sustainable ecosystem.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Wildfires
ISBN : MINN:31951D02703015Y

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Wildland fire use by Anonim Pdf