User Guide to Temporal Changes in LANDFIRE Vegetation, Fuel, and Fire Regime Products
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1 User Guide to Temporal Changes in LANDFIRE Vegetation, Fuel, and Fire Regime Products Donald Long Fire Modeling Institute Missoula Fire Sciences Lab USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station April 26 th, 2016 California Fire Science Consortium Webinar
2 MAIN TOPICS LANDFIRE User Guide Process Landscape Change Disturbance Mapping Vegetation Transition Databases (VTDB) Land Change Mapping Updates to Fire Modeling products Examples: Lassen logging, Zaca fire LANDFIRE Reference Guide Process
3 LANDFIRE User Guide Process Foundational Data Reference Data Remote Sensing Data Bio-physical Data Vegetation Data Classification Mapping Landscape Change Fire Modeling Data Fire Behavior Fire Effects Fire Regime
4 LANDFIRE User Guide Process LANDFIRE Methods and Processes LF2001, 2008, 2010, 2012 versions Compare-contrast methods Compare-contrast results Regionally specific reporting
5 VEGETATION REFINEMENTS Boundaries NLCD06 Riparian/Wetland Agriculture Urban Rock/Water Legend Revisions Base EVT Refined EVT Refresh Environmental Site Potential Refined EVT EVC EVH Refresh Bio-Physical Settings LF 2010 EVT EVC EVH SClass Imputation Process LANDFIRE Reference Database LF 2010 Environmental Site Potential Bio-Physical LF Settings 2010 Succession Classes LF 2010 EVT EVC EVH REFERENCE DATA Fuel Data Plot Data Contributed Data LANDFIRE Reference Database Sequence Table Data Conversion Events Data LF 2010 LF VDDT FVS/FFE Nonforest VTDB Forest VTDB EVENTS MTBS SmartFire LANDSCAPE CHANGE Vegetation Transition Database Disturbance Grids RSLC MIICA LANDSAT Fuelbed Rulesets LF 2010 Fuelbeds LANDFIRE Reference Database LANDFIRE Fuels Mapping Tool Fuel Loadings Imputation Process FUEL LF 2010 ELEVATION ASPECT SLOPE DATAHUB Disturbance LF 2010 FBFM40 FBFM13 Bulk Density Base Height Cover Height LF 2010 Fuel Loadings Tree Attribute Data
6 LANDFIRE User Guide Process Foundational Data Reference Data Remote Sensing Data Bio-physical Data Vegetation Data Classification Mapping Landscape Change Fire Modeling Data Fire Behavior Fire Effects Fire Regime
7 LF 2008 Transition Process Vegetation Improvements #2 LF National EVT Refresh EVT BuAg BuUr Rip/Wet Rock Water Vegetation Improvements #3 MRLC Landsat TM EDNA Refresh EVC Refresh EVH Circa 2001 EVT EVC EVH Vegetation Transition Modeling Circa 2001 Fire Behavior Mapping Fire Effects Mapping Fire Regime Mapping LF VDDT Non-forest VTDB Forest VTDB FVS/FFE Vegetation Transition Database Circa 2008 EVT EVC EVH Circa 2008 Fire Behavior Mapping Fire Effects Mapping Fire Regime Mapping Disturbance Grid Disturbance Mapping EVENTS RSLC MTBS
8 Landscape Change Disturbance Mapping Detecting Change Change Causality Change Severity Vegetation Transition Databases (VTDB ) Disturbance Integration Non-forest Transition Databases Forest Transition Databases Land Change Mapping Updating EVT/EVC/EVH Updating Disturbance Tracking Disturbance
9 Detecting Change Landsat TM Imagery Stacks consisting of 10 for 438 path rows Landsat ETM When necessary Image Preprocessing LEDAPS Surface Reflectance Cloud/Shadow Masking Snow/Ice Masking
10 Change Causality LANDFIRE Events Burn Severity from Wildfire mapping programs (MTBS, BAER, RAVG) SMARTFIRE Protected Area Database (PAD) Thinning
11 Change Severity LF 2008 Vegetation Change Tracker(Huang et al. 2010) LF 2010 Multi-Index Integrated Change Analysis (MIICA) (Jin, S., L. Yang, G. Xian, P. Danielson, and C. Homer, (in preparation).)
12 Disturbance Product Identifies Changed Pixels Only - 1 Product / year Legend 160 Codes 19 Causes / Events 2 Type Confidences 3 Severity Levels 3 Severity Confidences
13 A convergence of evidence Confidence MTBS BAER RAVG High High MIICA Refresh Events dnbr Severity High High Data Source Refresh Events dnbr Severity Medium Medium MIICA PAD dnbr Severity N/A Medium MIICA PAD dnbr Severity SMART FIRE N/A Medium
14 DISTURBANCE INTEGRATION - TSD YEARS Time Since Disturbance (TSD) YEARS Time Since Disturbance (TSD) YEAR Time Since Disturbance (TSD)
15 DISTURBANCE INTEGRATION - TYPE Disturbance Type Fire Mechanical Remove Mechanical Add Windthrow Insects and Disease Chemicals Herbicide
16 DISTURBANCE INTEGRATION - VDIST FINAL VDIST Code 131: Fire/High Severity/1 year TSD Code 313: MechAdd/Low Severity/6-10yrs TSD
17 Non-Forest Transition Databases Non-forest VTDB Non forest EVT succession to forest High severity fire, mechanical remove to non-forest EVT Non-forest EVT after fire Non-forest EVT after mechanical add & remove Non-forest EVT after chemical/herbicide VDDT SClass A EVC/EVH Mapzone summaries drive rules
18 Non-Forest Transition Databases Non forest EVT succession to forest Forest site potential; EVT based on ESP High severity fire, mechanical remove Forest to shrub or grass common to MZ Non-forest EVT After fire; shrub to grass (exotics in WD sage); grass to grass After mechanical remove: shrub to grass common to MZ After chemical/herbicide: exotic to natural
19 Forest Transition Databases Forest VTDB Run all plots through FVS-FFE Acquire new cover and height Bin into EVC and EVH classes Group output at 2 levels of EVT Assign majority outcome Create forest lookup tables
20 FVS/FFE Simulation Parameters Mechanical Remove High: Clearcut and burn Moderate: Remove 35% stand density; pile and burn Thin from below in 0-6 ; pile and burn Mechanical Add Cut 90%, 75%, and 55% of 0-8 then masticate Fire Target 95%, 75%, and 45% mortality Insects and Disease 85%, 55%, and 10% fixed mortality Windthrow Thin 85%, 55%, and 10% of stand and leave on the ground
21 FVS/FFE Simulation Parameters Succession 10 year run w/ No Disturbance All disturbance simulations followed by succession Assuming no succession on non-forest vegetation
22 Updating EVT/EVC/EVH Overlay VDIST w/2001 Veg Import overlay data Import non-forest tables Import forest tables Format & test update queries Run update queries Export vegtrans dbf Create updated veg grids
23 Updating Disturbance Overlay VDIST w/2001 Veg Apply logic rulesets Create Fuel Disturbance grid
24 Tracking Change Assign disturbance type Assign transition classes Create Transition Magnitude grid
25 Fire Behavior Transition Databases Surface Fuel: FBFM 13 and 40 Based on updated EVT, EVC, EVH (and BpS) Conditional on disturbance type, severity, TSD (FDIST) Mapped in the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LTFCT) Canopy Fuel: CH, CC, CBH,CBD Based on updated EVT, EVC, EVH Same GLM and regression tree equations as undisturbed Mapped in the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LTFCT)
26 Fire Effects Transition Databases FCCS Disturbed areas mapped into 600 series Pull in post-disturbance FBFM40 Use surface loadings from FBFM40 models Mapped in the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LTFCT) FLM Based on updated EVT, EVC, EVH (and BpS) Same rulesets for disturbed and undisturbed
27 Fire Regime Transition Databases Succession Class Based on updated EVT, EVC, EVH (and BpS) Same rulesets for disturbed and undisturbed Departure (VDEP, VCC) Changing Sclass distribution may change VDEP, VCC Historical Fire frequency (MFRI, FRG) No Change Historical Fire severity (PRF, PMS, PLS) No Change
28 Example 1: Lassen Forest
29 Lassen NAIP
30 Lassen EVC LF2001
31 Lassen Disturbance
32 Lassen EVC LF2012
33 Lassen NAIP 2012
34 Lassen FBFM40 LF2012
35 Lassen FCCS LF2008
36 Lassen SClass LF2012
37 Example 2: Zaca Fire
38 Zaca NAIP 2006
39 Zaca EVC LF2001
40 Zaca NAIP 2009
41 Zaca MTBS
42 Zaca EVC LF2012
43 Zaca FBFM40 LF2012
44 Zaca FCCS 2008
45 Zaca SClass 2012
46 LANDFIRE Reference Guide Process Area Overview Geography, Landforms Site potential Non-vegetated and Cultural Vegetation Lithomorphic, hydromorphic Urban Agricultural Natural and Semi-natural Herbaceous Shrub Treed
47 LANDFIRE Reference Guide Process Vegetation Transition logic and rulesets Non-forest Forest Fire Modeling product logic and rulesets Fire behavior Fire effects Fire regime Regionally specific vegetation
48 ?Questions?
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