Results of Forest Fuel Spatial Distribution Mapping for Fire Simulation Purposes – Case Study

Abstract:

In the paper we introduce an approach of mapping of surface forest fuel spatial distribution using the results of field survey and functions and tools of the ArcGIS environment. The analysis was provided for the Stare Hory locality, which was affected by a forest fire in April 2011. For classification of the surface forest fuel we used the terrain curvature features. Totally we identified 4 basic classes of terrain morphology (ridges and valleys with a low and high curvature). For those classes we did the field survey oriented to the investigation of the forest fuel volume in t.ha^-1. To quantify the surface forest fuel volume as precisely as possible we established 21 test plots in the field. Using the tools of Spatial Analyst in ArcGIS we produced the map of surface forest fuel volume distribution in the locality of Stare Hory. Results of such analyses are required as input data to the fire modeling and simulation processes in Farsite and FlamMap environments.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1001)
• Pages: 356-361
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1001.356
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Andrea Majlingová*, Maros Sedliak, Ján Tuček
• Keywords: ArcGIS, Fire Simulation, Forest Fire, Forest Fuel, Spatial Distribution

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