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Public LFRDB

Public LANDFIRE
Reference Database
A public version of the LANDFIRE Reference Database (LFRDB) is available which contains a subset of the data and attributes used for LANDFIRE production. The Public LFRDB includes vegetation and fuel data from geo-referenced sampling units nationwide. The data were largely amassed from existing information resources such as:

• USFS Vegetation Data
• USGS National Gap Analysis Program
• NPS Vegetation Characterization Program

Data archived in the Public LFRDB include:

Vegetation	Fuel
natural community occurrences estimates of canopy cover and height per plant taxon occurrence of exotics plants	biomass estimates of downed woody material percentage cover and height of shrub and herb layers canopy base height estimates

Major Public LFRDB attributes derived from the sampling data include:

• existing and potential vegetation in NatureServe's Ecological Systems units
• lifeform cover and height
• canopy fuel metrics (e.g. bulk density) from FuelCalc

Certain proprietary and/or sensitive data were removed in the public database. Consult the table lutVisitsSourceID in the database regarding data sources.

The Public LFRDB can be used as input to spatial and non-spatial vegetation models and is applicable for ground truthing and accuracy assessments for a variety of modeling and mapping efforts.

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