The Science Application and Integration
program priorities for LANDFIRE will focus on delivering and
supporting nationally consistent LANDFIRE data products to land
managers through continual innovation, improvement and application
of new techniques and technologies.
LANDFIRE meets agency and partner needs for data to support large
landscape fire management planning and prioritization, community and
firefighter protection, effective resource allocation, and
collaboration between agencies and the public. National data
products developed by LANDFIRE by map zone have a recognized degree
of accuracy and known errors and biases. Often locally developed
products and analysis for NFS lands are viewed as being more
accurate and useful in supporting planning and project analyses.
Innovation and improvement of LANDFIRE processing methods can help
reduce this differential. Because LANDFIRE provides “wall-to-wall”
data products it provides a basis for coordinating land management
planning and hazardous fuels treatments and priority setting across
the
landscape. LANDFIRE has been extremely useful to Incident Management
Teams in assessing fire behavior and conducting risk assessments to
support strategic and tactical decisions over the past few years.
Incident Commander’s have identified significant savings in incident
suppression costs as a result of having LANDFIRE data available to
their teams. Improving the utility of LANDFIRE products and support
to incident management requires additional innovation and
improvement in coordination with the Station’s science programs.
SA&I LANDFIRE Applications
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LANDFIRE data are being used at an increasing
rate to support a variety of activities and analyses. During the
2007 fire season, LANDFIRE data were used on 188 fires to assist
with suppression tactics. Others are using LANDFIRE data for
non-fire and fuel related projects because it is one of very few
data sets that apply to all land ownership for the entire United
States. The following descriptions highlight some examples of
LANDFIRE applications.
LANDFIRE procedures integrate relational databases,
geo-referenced field plots, remote sensing, systems ecology,
gradient modeling, predictive landscape modeling, vegetation
disturbance dynamics, and peer-reviewed fire science to create a
state-of-the-art scientific analysis of the U.S. landscape.
LANDFIRE is creating spatial data layers that include: all
layers required to run fire modeling applications such as
FARSITE and FlamMap, Existing Vegetation Type, Canopy Height,
Biophysical Setting, Environmental Site Potential, Fire Regime
Condition Class, and fire effects layers.
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