LANDFIRE Forest Canopy Cover
The LANDFIRE fuel data describe the composition and characteristics of both surface fuel and canopy fuel. Specific products include fire behavior fuel models, canopy bulk density (CBD), canopy base height (CBH), canopy cover (CC), canopy height (CH), and fuel loading models (FLMs). These data may be implemented within models to predict the behavior and effects of wildland fire. These data are useful for strategic fuel treatment prioritization and tactical assessment of fire behavior and effects.
CC describes percent cover of tree canopy in a stand. A spatially-explicit map of canopy cover supplies information for fire behavior models such as FARSITE (Finney 1998) to determine surface fuel shading for calculating dead fuel moisture and for calculating wind reductions. In FARSITE, canopy characteristics are used to compute shading, wind reduction factors, spotting distances, crown fuel volume, spread characteristics of crown fires and incorporate the effects of ladder fuels for transitions from a surface to crown fire.
Complete Metadata
| bureauCode |
[ "010:12" ] |
|---|---|
| identifier | http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_64bead9bd34e70357a31c52a |
| spatial | -127.9878, 22.7657, -65.2544, 51.6202 |
| theme |
[ "geospatial" ] |
