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1. Insight in fire incident mapping and creation of fire progression maps.

2. GIS overlay analysis - occurrence of fire in relation to topography and vegetation

3. Compile fire atlas information in ArcInfo to better understand historic and present fire patterns, disturbance regimes and landscape change. Computation of fire frequency and fire rotation.

4. Remote Sensing application - estimating fire severity using the Delta NBR Index and understand the relationship to BARC maps.

5. GIS raster models - binary models and index models

6. Using VDDT (Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool) box-models to simulate landscape level succession and disturbance.

7. Develop input GIS data layers to be used in landscape modeling tools such as Landsum, TELSA and Farsite. Typical input data: Elevation, slope, aspect, landcover, fuel models, structure etc.

8. GIS integration of spatially explicit landscape models such as Landsum and TELSA with GIS.

9. Understanding the Fire Regime Condition Class concept

10. Overview of GIS and Remote Sensing applications in the the National Fire Plan

Click for Syllabus

Reading 1: Gollberg G.E., Neuenschwander L.F., Ryan K.C., 2001. Introduction: Integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10, 263-265.

Reading 2: Rollins M.G., Swetnam T.W., Morgan P., 2001. Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky Mountain wilderness areas using digital fire atlases, Can. J. For. Res. 31:2107-2123.

Reading 3: Chang K., 2002. Geographic Information Systems, Chapter 14 - GIS Models and Modeling, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Reading 4: Keane R.E., Burgan R., van Wagtendonk J., 2001. Mapping wildland fuels for fire management across multiple scales: Integrating remote sensing, GIS and biophysical modeling, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10, 301-319

Reading 5: Hann W.J. and Bunnell D.L., 2001. Fire and land management planning and implementation across multiple scales, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10, 389-403

Reading 6: Morgan P., Hardy C.C., Swetnam T.W., Rollins M.G., Long D.G., 2001. Mapping fire regimes across time and space: Understanding coarse and fine-scale fire patterns, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10, 329-342

Reading 7: Rollins et al., 2004. Mapping Fuels and Fire Regimes using Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Simulation, and Gradient Modeling, Ecological Applications 14(1): 75-95.