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About this episode

Darren Johnson presenting. LANDFIRE, also known as the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project, is a five-year, multi-partner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States. As a partner in this project The Nature Conservancy's Global Fire Team is promoting the use of LANDFIRE products both spatial and non-spatial to assist conservation, forest and fire managers across the United States and globally. This presentation will highlight a case study demonstrating how LANDFIRE spatial data is being used by the Hawai'i Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) to complete it's Statewide Forest Resource Assessment. Specifically the Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) layer including vegetation cover and height developed by LANDFIRE for the 8 main islands will be used to develop statewide maps of canopy closure, density and height in order to consider the current and projected condition of Hawaii's primary forest types. In addition other spatial products such as the Biophysical Systems (BpS) layer which describes pre-European settlement vegetation conditions can be used to determine ecological departure for existing forest types in terms of vegetation composition and structure across the archipelago.

• Release Date

  Aug 5, 2009

• Runtime

  21:43