Information related to mapping and GIS in southeastern fire management.
Southern Fire Exchange Archived Webinars
LANDFIRE Remap in the Southeast (2020)
LANDFIRE Remap is a multi-year effort to improve the usability of the product suite by recreating base LANDFIRE products using new plot information, new imagery and production techniques. In this webinar, Jim Smith, TNC LANDFIRE Program Lead, reviewed LANDFIRE product offerings, described what has changed, what has not changed from previous versions, and provided information on future program plans, all from the perspective of a user in the Southeast US.
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Advancement of Smoke Emissions Models Utilizing Geospatial and Remote Sensing Data
In this webinar Joe Roise of the North Carolina State University, Siamak Khorram of the University of California, Berkeley, and Duncan Lutes with the USDA Forest Service presented an introduction to interdisciplinary research that seeks to improve wildland fire smoke emission model estimates using remote sensing estimates of wildland fire burn severity. The goal of this research is to provide better emissions information related to prescribed fires and wildland fires.
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Customizing Data – Leveraging LANDFIRE for the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment
In this webinar, presenters Curt Stripling and David Buckley explain the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment (SouthWRAP) project and how free LANDFIRE data were customized to better represent fuel conditions across the southeastern U.S.
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GIS Migration from Desktop to Web
In this webinar Justin Shedd of the North Carolina State University presented a review of various methods for managing and sharing GIS data using internet-based GIS platforms.
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LANDFIRE Assessing Needs – Understanding Recent and Potential Threats
Presenter Jennifer Costanza presents summaries of two LANDFIRE research applications that assessed threats to Southeastern US ecosystems.
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LANDFIRE 101
Host: Southern Fire Exchange and LANDFIRE
In this webinar, Randy Swaty, an Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, discusses the basics of LANDFIRE data use and access with examples from the southeastern U.S.
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LANDFIRE in the Southeast
TNC LANDFIRE program manager Dr. Jim Smith introduces the LANDFIRE program and provides some information about the limitations and appropriates applications of the GIS spatial datasets.
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Other useful archived webinars on this subject
ArcFuels and ArcGIS – Wildfire Lessons Learned Center
Host: LLC-JFSP-IAWF
Nicole Vaillant shares information about ArcFuels, which was designed to streamline the fuel management planning process and provide tools for quantitative wildfire risk assessment.
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Innovative uses of Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Data at Grand Canyon National Park
Host: LLC-JFSP-IAWF
Eric Gdula, Fire GIS Specialist with the National Park Service, shares several examples of how of Grand Canyon National Park uses burn severity data provided by the MTBS program for pre-fire planning, at the inception of fires, during protracted events, and post-fire analysis.
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Introduction to FlamMap5
Host: LLC-JFSP-IAWF
FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program. In this webinar, Chuck McHugh introduces new features within FlamMap5, how to navigate the program, and where to access the program and supporting documentation.
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LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool
Host: Southwest Fire Science Consortium
Tobin Smail and Charley Martin, US Geological Survey, provide an overview of the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool, which allows users to edit LANDFIRE fuels attributes and associated layers directly with an ArcMap Toolbar.
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Landscape Treatment Designer: A Multicriteria Optimization Tool for Fuel Treatment Planning
Host: LLC-JFSP-IAWF
Alan Ager provides an overview of the Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD)—a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. This program can be used in a number of ways to explore treatment priority and decision rules for small to large (1 million ha) landscapes.
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Mobile Technologies in Fire and Aviation Management
Host: LLC-JFSP-IAWF
Esther Godson, who works at Missoula Technology and Development Center, discusses the use of mobile technology in wildfire management.
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS): Project Overview and Data Access
Host: LLC-JFSP-IAWF
Josh Picotte, Fire Specialist with the USGS EROS program introduced the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program (MTBS). MTBS provides free burn severity data derived from Landsat images that can be used in GIS and Google Earth applications. Josh discussed the current and future methods used to derive the burn severity datasets as well as several examples of applications of the data in the southeastern US.
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Online Mapping and Spatial Resources for the Private Landowner
Host: Forestry & Natural Resources Webinar Portal
Presenter John Gilbert provides an overview of a booklet produced by Auburn University to compile information and examples of online mapping and spatial resources for forest landowners and managers.
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Online Mapping Tools for the Natural Resource Professional
Host: Forestry & Natural Resources Webinar Portal
James Jeuck, Forestry Extension Associate with NC State University presents this 4-part webinar series to help natural resource professionals become familiar with important sources of online mapping tools and data without the need for a complex GIS program.
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Soil Mapping: An Overview
Host: Forestry & Natural Resources Webinar Portal
Ed O’Brien shares an overview of the mechanics and principals that surround soil mapping, by providing scenario-based instructions on how to read, interpret, and act on the data contained in these models.
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