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Title:
Fire Behavior Assessment Team: in-fire videos
Author(s):
Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike
Publication Year:
2021
How to Cite:
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Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2021. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: in-fire videos. Updated 17 April 2024. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0069
Abstract:
This data publication contains in-fire video collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) on a subset of wildland fires in the United States from 2003-2019. FBAT collects pre- and post-fire fuels and tree data along with fire behavior measurements on wildland fires. FBAT is an interagency group of primarily Forest Service employees with both monitoring and fireline qualifications which collects pre- and post-fire fuels and tree data along with fire behavior measurements on wildland fires. Logistics (proximity to instrumentation/crew members), funding, fire activity, and monitoring questions influenced the geographic regions and fires where sampling was attempted, for instance, fuel treatments recorded in the Forest Service Activity Tracking System (FACTS), as well as tree mortality areas, were each targets for FBAT sampling in the past. This publication includes the full in-fire videos (60-85 minutes) for multiple plots on 16 different wildland fires. Also included are multiple short, 30-60 second video clips, taken from the full videos, to highlight the variation in fire behavior observed at each plot. The concept behind these short video clips was to give viewers several samples of the typical fire behavior observed at each plot because the full length videos can be quite long.

Keywords:
environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Fire; Fire ecology; Fire effects on environment; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; videos; images; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; United States; California; Montana; Idaho; Arizona; Wyoming; Georgia
Related publications:
  • Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea ; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2018. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: Plot location data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0056
  • Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea ; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2018. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: pre- and post-fire tree data, raw and processed. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0057
  • Miesel, Jessica; Reiner, Alicia; Ewell, Carol; Maestrini, Bernardo; Dickinson, Matthew. 2018. Quantifying changes in total and pyrongenic carbon stocks across fire severity gradients using active wildfire incidents. Frontiers in Earth Science. 6:1-21. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00041 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/57240
  • Lydersen, Jamie M.; Collins, Brandon M.; Ewell, Carol M.; Reiner, Alicia L.; Fites, Jo Ann; Dow, Christopher B.; Gonzalez, Patrick; Saah, David S.; Battles, John J. 2014. Using field data to assess model predictions of surface and ground fuel consumption by wildfire in coniferous forests of California. JRG Biogeosciences. 119(3): 223-235. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JG002475 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/46373
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