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Towards integration of GLAS data into a national fuels mapping program

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
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Abstract

Comprehensive canopy structure and fuel data are critical for understanding and modeling wildland fire. The LANDFIRE project produces such data nationwide based on a collection of field observations, Landsat imagery, and other geospatial data. Where field data are not available, alternate strategies are being investigated. In this study, vegetation structure data available from GLAS were used to fill this data gap for the Yukon Flats Ecoregion of interior Alaska. The GLAS-derived structure and fuel layers and the original LANDFIRE layers were subsequently used as inputs into a fire behavior model to determine what effect the revised inputs would have on the model outputs. The outputs showed that inclusion of the GLAS data enabled better landscape-level characterization of vegetation structure and therefore enabled a broader wildland fire modeling capability. The results of this work underscore how GLAS data can be incorporated into LANDFIRE canopy structure and fuel mapping.

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Peterson, B.E., Nelson, K., Wylie, B., 2013, Towards integration of GLAS data into a national fuels mapping program: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, v. 79, no. 2, p. 175-183.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Towards integration of GLAS data into a national fuels mapping program
Series title Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
Volume 79
Issue 2
Year Published 2013
Language English
Publisher American Society for Photogrammetry
Contributing office(s) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Description 9 p.
Larger Work Type Article
Larger Work Subtype Journal Article
Larger Work Title Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
First page 175
Last page 183
Country United States
State Alaska
Other Geospatial Yukon Flats Ecoregion
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