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LANDFIRE ››
| Q. | What are the general uses of LANDFIRE data products? |
Principal purposes of LANDFIRE data products include:
- Provide national-level, landscape-scale geospatial products to support fire and fuels management planning.
- Provide consistent fuels data to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives.
- Provide landscape¿scale, cross-boundary strategic products for fire and land management activities.
- Supplement planning and management activities, including monitoring, that require consistent vegetation data.
- Supplement strategic and tactical planning for fire operations.
- Supplement and assist in:
- Identification of areas across the nation at risk due to accumulation of wildland fuel
- Prioritization of national hazardous fuel reduction projects
- Improved collaboration between agencies with regard to fire and other natural resource management
- Modeling of real-time fire behavior to support tactical decisions to ensure sufficient wildland firefighting capacity and safety.
- Regional modeling of potential fire behavior and effects to strategically plan projects for hazardous fuel reduction and restoration of ecosystem integrity on fire-adapted landscapes
- Community and firefighter protection, effective resource allocation, and collaboration between agencies and the public
In addition, many LANDFIRE data products are designed to feed directly into existing models, such as FARSITE, which spatially and temporally simulate the spread and behavior of fires under conditions of heterogeneous terrain, fuel, and weather.
Although not an original intent of the project, LANDFIRE data are also being used for non-fire related uses. Some examples are wildlife habitat inventory/assessment and resource management planning. Please visit the Data Products > Applications section of this website for additional information on fire and fuel related uses as well as non-fire uses.
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