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LANDFIRE 2022 Fuel Disturbance (FDist) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

LANDFIRE (LF) disturbance products are developed to provide temporal and spatial information related to landscape change. LF 2022 Fuel Disturbance (FDist) uses the latest Annual Disturbance products from the effective disturbance years of 2013 to 2022. FDist is created from LF 2022 Historical Disturbance (HDist) which in turn aggregates the Annual Disturbance products. FDist groups similar disturbance types, severities and time since disturbance categories which represent disturbance scenarios within the fuel environment. FDist is used in conjunction with Fuel Vegetation Type (FVT), Cover (FVC), and Height (FVH) to calculate Canopy Cover (CC), Canopy Height (CH), Canopy Bulk Density (CBD), Canopy Base Height (CBH), Fire Behavior Fuel Models 13 Anderson (FBFM13) and 40 Scott and Burgan (FBFM40). FDist is developed using the aggregated Annual Disturbance products from 2013 to 2022. All existing disturbances between 2013-2022 are represented in the LF 2022 update, and the products are intended to be used in 2023 (the year of release). The “capable” year terminology used in LF 2020 and LF 2016 Remap is no longer specified, due to reduction in latency from when a disturbance occurs to the release date of fuel products accounting for that disturbance. However, users should still consider adjusting fuel layers for disturbances that occurred after the end of the 2022 fiscal year (after October 1st, 2022) when using the LF 2022 fuel products. Because those changes would not be accounted for. Learn more about LF 2022 at https://landfire.gov/lf_230.php .

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Author(s) Brian L Tolk orcid, Inga P La orcid, Daryn J Dockter orcid, Charley M Martin orcid, Paul F Bourget orcid, Sean D Beverly orcid, Eva L Soluk, Deborah Lissfelt (CTR), Sofronio C Propios, Lucas J Porter, Erica J Degaga, Tobin Smail (CTR), Jacob G Casey
Publication Date 2023-12-28
Beginning Date of Data 2022
Ending Date of Data 2022
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P974JF8W
Citation Tolk, B.L., La, I.P., Dockter, D.J., Martin, C.M., Bourget, P.F., Beverly, S.D., Soluk, E.L., (CTR), D.L., Propios, S.C., Porter, L.J., Degaga, E.J., (CTR), T.S., and Casey, J.G., 2023, LANDFIRE 2022 Fuel Disturbance (FDist) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P974JF8W.
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Metadata Date 2024-04-09
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