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Type: Unpublished Work
Author(s): Charley Martin; Tobin Smail; Jim Napoli; Henry V. Bastian; Frank Fay
Publication Date: 2011

Participants at the workshop represented experts from state, local and federal agencies, tribal organizations, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and private contractors with knowledge of vegetation types and their relationships to fuels and fire behavior. Attendees provided review and input of the LANDFIRE (LF) vegetation, disturbance, and fire behavior fuel modeled data sets. This workshop was done in a meeting, with conference line and webinar access. Unlike the lower 48 workshops, no fire behavior fuel model data products were updated or changed. This may have been due to the fact that an Alaska fire behavior guide book was developed under the Alaska Wildland Fire Coordination Group (AWFCG). This guide book served as a key resource in mapping the LANDFIRE FBFMs in AK. Issues or problems noted in the LF data layers have been captured in the notes below and will be organized into two categories of remediation-short-term (1-2 years) and long-term (3-5 years) to improve the data products in future updates. Based on available times at the workshop, not all areas by vegetation type, disturbance category, or fire behavior fuel model were evaluated, however the group worked to address the largest concerns in an appropriate manner.

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Citation: Martin, Charley; Smail, Tobin; Napoli, Jim; Bastian, Henry; Fay, Frank. 2011. AK-LANDFIRE data workshop final notes. AK-LANDFIRE Data Workshop, November 7-10, 2011, Fairbanks, AK. 7 p.

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Topics:
Fire Behavior    Fuels    Mapping    Models
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Keywords:
  • LANDFIRE
  • vegetation mapping
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Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 12044