Event Title
Reliability of landfire data: checking the data against itself
Description
Landfire, also known as the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project, is self described as "a five-year, multi-partner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States." Recently the data for eleven of the Western States in the US has been made available to the public. However, there may be some inconsistencies in the data with particular regard to the fire regime data. The fire regime data is broken down into indicator sets such as Mean Fire Return Interval, Fire Regime Groups, and Fire Regime Condition Class, which once normalized should yield equal numbers in terms of acreages across the landscapes since the last fire return. Errors discovered in this analysis, or lack thereof, should provide insight into future areas of study involving the landfire datasets, reveal inconsistencies in data collection, or perhaps validate these landfire data subsets.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
8-3-2008 8:00 AM
Subject - LCSH
Wildfires--Management--United States; Geographic information systems
End Date
8-3-2008 5:00 PM
Session
GIS and Spatial Data
Genre/Form
abstracts (summaries)
Type
event
Geographic Coverage
United States
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author's written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Keywords
landfire, wildland-fire, GIS, Fire-Regime
Reliability of landfire data: checking the data against itself
Landfire, also known as the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project, is self described as "a five-year, multi-partner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States." Recently the data for eleven of the Western States in the US has been made available to the public. However, there may be some inconsistencies in the data with particular regard to the fire regime data. The fire regime data is broken down into indicator sets such as Mean Fire Return Interval, Fire Regime Groups, and Fire Regime Condition Class, which once normalized should yield equal numbers in terms of acreages across the landscapes since the last fire return. Errors discovered in this analysis, or lack thereof, should provide insight into future areas of study involving the landfire datasets, reveal inconsistencies in data collection, or perhaps validate these landfire data subsets.