scholarly journals Wildland fire science at the U.S. Geological Survey—supporting wildland fire and land management across the United States postcard

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Steblein ◽  
Mark P. Miller ◽  
Suzanna C. Soileau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Fire Science ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Modeling Regional-Scale Wildland Fire Emissions with the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System*

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy H. F. French ◽  
Donald McKenzie ◽  
Tyler Erickson ◽  
Benjamin Koziol ◽  
Michael Billmire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information System ◽  
North America ◽  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fire Emissions ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Web

Abstract As carbon modeling tools become more comprehensive, spatial data are needed to improve quantitative maps of carbon emissions from fire. The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) provides mapped estimates of carbon emissions from historical forest fires in the United States through a web browser. WFEIS improves access to data and provides a consistent approach to estimating emissions at landscape, regional, and continental scales. The system taps into data and tools developed by the U.S. Forest Service to describe fuels, fuel loadings, and fuel consumption and merges information from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration on fire location and timing. Currently, WFEIS provides web access to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) burned area for North America and U.S. fire-perimeter maps from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity products from the USGS, overlays them on 1-km fuel maps for the United States, and calculates fuel consumption and emissions with an open-source version of the Consume model. Mapped fuel moisture is derived from daily meteorological data from remote automated weather stations. In addition to tabular output results, WFEIS produces multiple vector and raster formats. This paper provides an overview of the WFEIS system, including the web-based system functionality and datasets used for emissions estimates. WFEIS operates on the web and is built using open-source software components that work with open international standards such as keyhole markup language (KML). Examples of emissions outputs from WFEIS are presented showing that the system provides results that vary widely across the many ecosystems of North America and are consistent with previous emissions modeling estimates and products.

scholarly journals A Review of Community Smoke Exposure from Wildfire Compared to Prescribed Fire in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Navarro ◽  
Don Schweizer ◽  
John R. Balmes ◽  
Ricardo Cisneros
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Prescribed Fire ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Smoke Exposure ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Wildfire Smoke ◽  
Scientific Papers

Prescribed fire, intentionally ignited low-intensity fires, and managed wildfires, wildfires that are allowed to burn for land management benefit, could be used as a land management tool to create forests that are resilient to wildland fire. This could lead to fewer large catastrophic wildfires in the future. However, we must consider the public health impacts of the smoke that is emitted from wildland and prescribed fire. The objective of this synthesis is to examine the differences in ambient community-level exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5) from smoke in the United States from two smoke exposure scenarios – wildfire fire and prescribed fire. A systematic search was conducted to identify scientific papers to be included in this review. Web of Science Core Collection and PubMed for scientific papers, and Google Scholar were used to identify any grey literature or reports to be included in this review. Sixteen studies that examined particulate matter exposure from smoke were identified for this synthesis – nine wildland fire studies and seven prescribed fire studies. PM2.5 concentrations from wildfire smoke were found to be significantly lower than reported PM2.5 concentrations from prescribed fire smoke. Wildfire studies focused on assessing air quality impacts to communities that were nearby fires and urban centers that were far from wildfires. However, the prescribed fire studies used air monitoring methods that focused on characterizing exposures and emissions directly from and next to the burns. This review highlights a need for a better understanding of wildfire smoke impact over the landscape. It is essential for properly assessing population exposure to smoke from different fire types.

scholarly journals How Can We Span the Boundaries between Wildland Fire Science and Management in the United States?

2012 ◽  
Vol 110 (8) ◽  
pp. 421-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan D. Kocher ◽  
Eric Toman ◽  
Sarah F. Trainor ◽  
Vita Wright ◽  
Jennifer S. Briggs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wildland Fire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fire Science

A Personalized National Atlas of the United States

1995 ◽  
pp. 40-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Morrison
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Geological Survey published the National Atlas of the United States of America in 1971. Since then times have changed, and the technological revolution in cartography today makes it mandatory to take a close look at the concept of a national atlas. This paper focuses on two concepts related to national atlases: the popular conception of a national atlas and the notion that a comprehensive national atlas would contain information on the United States that most commercial atlases would not include. Ideas are presented that describe what a future, comprehensive, digitally produced national atlas for the United States (CD-NAUS) might look like.

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