Datasets / US Forest Service LANDFIRE Surface Fuel


US Forest Service LANDFIRE Surface Fuel

Published By US Forest Service, Department of Agriculture

Issued almost 10 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

LANDFIRE surface fuel data describe the composition and characteristics of wildland surface fuel and can be implemented within models to predict wildland fire behavior and effects. LANDFIRE fuel products are useful for strategic fuel treatment prioritization and tactical assessment of fire behavior and effects. They provide consistent fuel data to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives supplement strategic and tactical planning for fire operations.