REMOTE SENSING & MAPPING
wildland fires & Natural disasters
A compendium of open data and resources for GIS and academic research.
site: USGS LANDFIRE Program
"The LF Program provides 20+ national geo-spatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models that are available to the public for the US and insular areas."
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Reference
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Public LANDFIRE Reference Database - LFRDB consists of vegetation and fuel data from geo-referenced sampling units nationwide
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USFS Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA)
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USGS National Gap Analysis Program (GAP)
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NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M)
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natural community occurrences
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estimates of canopy cover and height per plant taxon
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occurrence of exotics plants
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biomass estimates of downed woody material
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percentage cover and height of shrub and herb layers
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canopy base height estimates
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Public Events Geodatabase - The LANDFIRE (LF) Public Events Geodatabase used in LF 2008 (LF 1.1.0), LF 2010 (LF 1.2.0), LF 2012 (LF 1.3.0), and LF 2014 (LF 1.4.0) , and LF Remap (LF 2.0.0) production is available and includes up to three feature classes for each geographic area:
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Raw & Model Ready Events
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natural disturbance and vegetation/fuel treatment data 1999-2016
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Exotics
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occurrence of exotic or invasive plant species 1999-2016
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Forest Vegetation Simulator Ready Database
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FVSRDB contains nationwide FVS analysis ready plot data (StandInit and TreeInit tables)
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Disturbance - Disturbance products are developed to help inform updates to LANDFIRE (LF) data to reflect change on the landscape caused by management activities and natural disturbance.
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Disturbance
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Annual Disturbance
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Vegetation Disturbance
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Fuel Disturbance
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Historical Disturbance
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Public Events Geodatabase
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Transition
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Vegetation Transition Magnitude
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Forest Vegetation Transitions Database
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Non Forest Vegetation Transitions Database
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Forest Vegetation Simulator Disturbance Database
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Vegetation
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Existing
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Existing Vegetation Type
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National Vegetation Classification
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Existing Vegetation Cover
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Existing Vegetation Height
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Potential
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Biophysical Settings
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Biophysical Settings Models and Descriptions
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Environmental Site Potential
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Other
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Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS)
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LF Reference Database - Vegetation and fuel data
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Fuel
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Surface Fuel
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13 Anderson Fire Behavior Fuel Models
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40 Scott and Burgan Fire Behavior Fuel Models
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Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
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Fuel Characteristic Classification System Fuelbeds
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Fuel Loading Models
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Fuel Disturbance
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Canopy Fuel
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Forest Canopy Cover
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Forest Canopy Height
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Forest Canopy Bulk Density
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Forest Canopy Base Height
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Fuel Vegetation
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Fuel Vegetation Type
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Fuel Vegetation Cover
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Fuel Vegetation Height
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Other
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Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS) - LF uses two indexes of MoD-FIS to account for fuel's seasonal variability which represent current, real-time conditions
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Fuel Disturbance - integrated composites of individual disturbance years recoded by disturbance type, disturbance severity, and time since disturbance and screened for non-burnable vegetation to meet fuel transition mapping requirements
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Landscape (.LCP) file - a service that provides a multi-band raster format used by wildland fire behavior and fire effect simulation models such as FARSITE and FlamMap
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LF Reference Database (LFRDB) - consists of vegetation and fuel data from geo-referenced sampling units nationwide
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Fuel Rulesets Database — standalone fuel rulesets database exported from the LF Total Fuel Change Tool
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Fire Regime
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Historical Fire Frequency and Severity
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Fire Regime Groups
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Mean Fire Return Interval
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Percent Low Severity Fire
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Percent Mixed Severity Fire
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Percent Replacement Severity Fire
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Vegetation Departure
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Vegetation condition class
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Vegetation Departure
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Succession Classes
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Topographic - LCP file
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Aspect
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Elevation
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Slope
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Seasonal
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Southeast Drought based Fuel Dynamic System
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Great Basin/Southwest
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