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This course teaches
students how to collect and summarize wildland fuels profile data. The data
is reduced in a way as to be incorporated into a NEPA oriented, fire/fuels,
project level analysis. Fuel profile data collected includes dead downed
woody, brush and canopy materials.
The competencies for the
Quantification of Wildland Fire and Fuels Analysis Inputs are:
1.
Conduct a dead downed woody fuel inventory using the Planar Intersect method
of data collection.
2.
Conduct a fuel inventory using the Photo Series method.
3.
Collect stand characteristics needed for fire behavior and fire effects
assessment.
4.
Calculate and quantify wildland fuel amounts and character.
5.
Describe fuel beds in three dimensions.
6.
Design a sampling method for conduction a fuel inventory.
7.
Provide descriptive statistics for a dead downed woody fuel inventory.
8.
Utilize the DDWoodyPC program in FMAPlus to reduce fuel inventory data and
view and search Photo Series.
9.
Utilize the PSExplorer program to search Photo Series for defined fuelbed
characteristics.
10.
Identify a representative FBPS (1982) and Standard (2005) fuel model given a
fuelbed profile.
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