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Modeling the wildland/urban interface
| Author: |
Price, Mark |
| Date: |
2003 |
| Periodical: |
ArcUser |
| Link: |
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0403/files/firemodel.pdf
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| Abstract: |
Complex vegetation types and the highly variable topography on which our forests grow present special management challenges. These wildland fuel managers have combined many years of study and practical observation with spatial technology to create classification systems for forest fuels and topography that gauge fire hazard. The National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA1144—Standard for Protection of Life and Property from Wildfire addresses the relationship of slope and fuels so that the fire hazards around homes located at the Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) can be assessed. |
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