Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis
Subtitle: models, tools, and techniques
By: Richard D. Stratton.
Contributors: Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Series: General technical report RMRS -- GTR-183.
Publisher: United States Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Fort Collins, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Wildfires -- Mathematical models; Fire risk assessment
Description: There is an increasing need for spatial wildland fire analysis in support of incident management, fuel treatment planning, wildland-urban assessment, and land management plan development.  However, little guidance has been provided to the field in the form of training, support, or research examples. This paper provides guidance to fire managers, planners, specialists, and analysts in the use of "models" (FARSITE, FlamMap, RERAP-Term), tools/programs (KCFAST, RAWS, FireFamily Plus, WindWizard), and procedures for spatial fire analysis. The approach includes a brief discussion about models and their assumptions and limitations, historical fire and weather analysis, landscape file data acquisition and development, landscape file and model output critique, and model calibration.
Notes: Cover title.

"December 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 14-15).

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