LANDFIRE - 40 Scott and Burgan Fire Behavior Fuel Models (LANDFIRE.US_130FBFM40)

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Publication Date: 2013-03-31
Start Date: 2000-01-01
End Date: 2001-01-01

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Wildland Fire Science, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 20130331, LANDFIRE.US_130FBFM40: Wildland Fire Science, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey: Sioux Falls, SD, http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov/viewer/, http://www.landfire.gov.

Summary

The LANDFIRE fuel data describe the composition and characteristics of both surface fuel and canopy fuel. Specific products include fire behavior fuel models, canopy bulk density (CBD), canopy base height (CBH), canopy cover (CC), canopy height (CH), and fuel loading models (FLMs). These data may be implemented within models to predict the behavior and effects of wildland fire. These data are useful for strategic fuel treatment prioritization and tactical assessment of fire behavior and effects. DATA SUMMARY: These fire behavior fuel models represent distinct distributions of fuel loadings found among surface fuel components (live and dead), size classes and fuel types. The fuel models are described by the most common fire carrying [...]

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The LANDFIRE fuel data describe the composition and characteristics of both surface fuel and canopy fuel. Specific products include fire behavior fuel models, canopy bulk density (CBD), canopy base height (CBH), canopy cover (CC), canopy height (CH), and fuel loading models (FLMs). These data may be implemented within models to predict the behavior and effects of wildland fire. These data are useful for strategic fuel treatment prioritization and tactical assessment of fire behavior and effects. DATA SUMMARY: These fire behavior fuel models represent distinct distributions of fuel loadings found among surface fuel components (live and dead), size classes and fuel types. The fuel models are described by the most common fire carrying fuel type (grass, brush, timber litter or slash), loading and surface area-to-volume ratio by size class and component, fuelbed depth and moisture of extinction. Further detail can be found in Scott and Burgan (2005) and Rothermel (1983). This data layer contains a complete set of fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel's fire spread models. Characteristics of the new fuel model set, its development and its relationship to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models can be found in Burgan (2005). In fire behavior fuel models, canopy characteristics are used to compute shading, wind reduction factors, spotting distances, crown fuel volume, spread characteristics of crown fires and incorporate the effects of ladder fuels for transitions from a surface to crown fire. Canopy characteristics refer to the tree canopy. Where there are tree canopies, i.e. existing vegetation types that are forest and woodland, LANDFIRE has attributed the grid with canopy characteristics with some exceptions. There will be no canopy characteristics in fuel types where the tree canopy is considered a part of the surface fuel and the surface fire behavior fuel model is chosen as such. This is because LANDFIRE assumes the potential burnable biomass in the tree canopy has been accounted for in the surface fuel model parameters. For example, young or short conifer stands where the trees are represented by a shrub type fuel model will not have canopy characteristics. Field plot data contributed either directly or indirectly to this LANDFIRE National data product. Go to http://www.landfire.gov/participate_acknowledgements.php for more information regarding contributors of field plot data. LANDFIRE 2012 (lf_1.3.0) and used LANDFIRE 2010 (lf_1.2.0) data as a launching point to incorporate disturbance and its severity, both managed and natural, which occurred on the landscape after 2010. Specific examples of disturbance are: fire, vegetation management, weather, and insect and disease. Disturbance data used in the updating is the result of several efforts that include data derived in part from remotely sensed land change methods, Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), and the LANDFIRE events data call. Vegetation growth was modeled where disturbance occured.

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Point of Contact :: Wildland Fire Science, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey
Metadata Contact :: U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Originator :: Wildland Fire Science, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher :: Wildland Fire Science, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey

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LANDFIRE data products are designed to facilitate national- and regional-level strategic planning and reporting of management activities. Data products are created at a 30-meter grid spatial resolution raster data set; however, the applicability of data products varies by location and specific use. Principal purposes of the data products include providing, 1) national-level, landscape-scale geospatial products to support fire and fuels management planning, and, 2) consistent fuels data to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives. Users are advised to evaluate the data carefully for their applications.

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