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Modeling Wildfire Perimeter Formation for Strategic Containment Line Planning in the Boreal Forest Region of Alberta, Canada
DownloadFall 2024
The edge or perimeter of a wildland fire is an important characteristic that marks the extent of land area that has burned. It is not only an ecological boundary, but also an administrative way of documenting the direct impact of a wildfire. Weather has a well-established influence on fire...
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Fall 2020
In many regions of the world, fires are the primary environmental disturbance producing a mosaic of burned and unburned patches varying at temporal and spatial scales and providing a variety of ecosystem services. Fire perimeters mark the separation between the burned and unburned matrix of a...
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Predicting Fuel Characteristics of Black Spruce Stands Using Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) in the Province of Alberta, Canada
DownloadFall 2020
Maps that describe the characteristics of live and dead biomass across large areas (i.e., fuel maps) are a critical input to a wide range of research models and decision support systems that aim to describe potential fire behaviour and inform fire management actions. As remote sensing...