Fire Assessment References

Fire Assessment References

Bishop, Jim, Technical background of the FireLine Assessment MEthod (FLAME), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2007.

Finney, M. A.,  FARSITE: Fire Area Simulator—model development and evaluation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1998.

Finney, Mark A., An Overview of FlamMap Fire Modeling Capabilities,  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2006.

Finney, M.A., Grenfell, I.C., McHugh, C.W. et al., A Method for Ensemble Wildland Fire Simulation. Environ Model Assess, 2011.

Heinsch, Faith Ann; Andrews, Patricia L., BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 5.0: Design and Features, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2010.

Podur, Justin and Wotton B. Mike, Defining fire spread event days for fire-growth modelling, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2011.

Pontius Jr., R.G., Huffaker, D., Denman, Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models, Ecological Modeling, 2004.

Rothermel, R. C., How to predict the spread and intensity of forest and range fires,  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1983.

Rykiel Jr, E.J., Testing ecological models: the meaning of validations, Ecological Modeling, 1996.

Scott, Joe H. and Reinhardt, Elizabeth D., Assessing crown fire potential by linking models of surface and crown fire behavior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2001.

Scott, Joe H.,  Introduction to Wildfire Behavior Modeling, National Interagency Fuels, Fire, & Vegetation Technology Transfer, 2012.

Stratton, Richard D., Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis: models, tools, and techniques, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2006.

Stratton, Richard D., Guidebook on LANDFIRE fuels data acquisition, critique, modification, maintenance, and model calibration,  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2009.