The California Forest Observatory is a data-driven forest monitoring system. The system maps the drivers of wildfire hazard across the state—including forest structure, weather, topography & infrastructure—from space.
Read MoreThis Story Map tells the story of the 2017 fires, with a specific emphasis on how natural habitats fared during and after the fires, and the important role of science and data in enhancing watershed and community resiliency, land management, and education.
This website discusses the work being done here and has an amazing set of photos, videos, and even a virtual reality immersive experience (under the media gallery tab).
Read MoreThese geospatial layers and other data products that depict the nation's major ecosystems, wildlife habitat, vegetation or canopy characteristics, landscape features, and wildland fire behavior, effects, and regimes.
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IFTDSS is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes previously existing and newly developed fire and fuels software applications to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective.
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This website, maintained by the USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, provides downloads and explanations for most of the fire modeling programs available for land managers. Programs available include BehavePlus, FlamMap, FARSITE, FireFamilyPlus, Wildland Fire Assessment System, WindWizard, WindNinja, and FireStem.
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MTBS is a multi-year project designed to consistently map the burn severity and perimeters of fires across all lands of the United States for the period spanning 1984 through 2010.
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The California Fire Science Consortium is divided into 4 geographic regions and 1 wildland-urban interface (WUI) team. Statewide coordination of this program is based at UC Berkeley.
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This regional Fire Science Exchange is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges sponsored by Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP).
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