LANDFIRE: Collaboration for National Fire Fuel Assessment
Fact Sheet
2006-3019
By: Zhi-Liang Zhu
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Abstract
The implementation of national fire management policies, such as the National Fire Plan and the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, requires geospatial data of vegetation types and structure, wildland fuels, fire risks, and ecosystem fire regime conditions. Presently, no such data sets are available that can meet these requirements. As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the Department of the Interior's land management bureaus (Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS)) have jointly sponsored LANDFIRE, a new research and development project. The primary objective of the project is to develop an integrated and repeatable methodology and produce vegetation, fire, and ecosystem information and predictive models for cost-effective national land management applications. The project is conducted collaboratively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the USDA Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | LANDFIRE: Collaboration for National Fire Fuel Assessment |
| Series title | Fact Sheet |
| Series number | 2006-3019 |
| DOI | 10.3133/fs20063019 |
| Edition | - |
| Year Published | 2006 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 1 p. |
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