 LANDFIRE Prototype PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS Robert Keane, Deputy Program Manager, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science (FFS); Research Ecologist; Director, Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) and Matthew Rollins, Landscape Fire Ecologist, LANDFIRE Technical Leader Staff Russel Parsons, Research Ecologist
Eva Karau, Ecologist
Mareen Mislivets, GIS Specialist
Lisa Holsinger, Ecologist
Tracy Frescino, Ogden FIA INTRODUCTION The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The objectives of the LANDFIRE Prototype Project were to develop the methods, tools, and protocols for producing consistent and comprehensive digital maps of current vegetation composition and structure, wildland fuel, historical fire regimes, and fire regime condition class (FRCC) to be applied across the entire United States at a 30-meter spatial resolution. KEY RESULTS The LANDFIRE Prototype Project involved the compilation of a large field-referenced database to serve as training data for developing predictive landscape models; the development of Landsat image catalogs and biophysical gradient layers to serve as spatial predictors for mapping vegetation and wildland fuel characteristics; the development of vegetation and fuel map unit classifications; the development of a suite of vegetation dynamics models for simulating vegetation development over time; the implementation of a landscape succession model (LANDSUMv4) for simulating historical fire regimes and vegetation reference conditions; and the development of maps of surface and canopy fuel and fire effects fuel models for application in wildland fire management planning. REFERENCES Keane, R.E., M.G. Rollins, C. McNicoll, and R.A. Parsons. 2002. Predictive landscape modeling using gradient-based sampling, remote sensing, and ecosystem simulation.  RMRS-GTR-92. U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. [Online]Sept. 2008]. Rollins, M.G., R.E. Keane, R.A. Parsons. 2004. Mapping Fuels and Fire Regimes Using Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Simulation, and Gradient Modeling. Ecological Applications 14:75-95. Rollins, M.G. and C.K. Frame. 2006. The LANDFIRE Prototype Project: nationally consistent and locally relevant geospatial data for wildland fire management. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-175. U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. [Online][Sept. 2008]. Keane, R.E.; L. M. Holsinger, and S.D. Pratt. 2006. Simulating historical landscape dynamics using the landscape fire succession model LANDSUM version 4.0 RMRS-GTR-171CD. U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fort Collins, Colorado. [Online]: [Sept. 2008]. Steele, B.M., S.K. Reddy, and R.E. Keane. 2006. A methodology for assessing departure of current plant communities from historical conditions over large landscapes. Ecological Modelling 199:53-63. Keane, R.E., M.G. Rollins, and Z. Zhu. 2007. Using simulated historical time series to prioritize fuel treatments on landscapes across the United States: The LANDFIRE prototype project. Ecological Modelling 204: 485–502. FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation
U.S. Department of Interior Office of Wildland Fire Coordination PRODUCTS http://www.landfire.gov/mprototype.php 
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