Fire Behavior Assessment Team: pre- and post-fire canopy cover data

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_metadata_RDS-2020-0028.html   Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2020-0028.xml   Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
FBAT_CanopyCover.csv \Data Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing raw and processed pre- and post-fire field-collected tree canopy cover data for: Aspen, Rim, French, Beaver, King, Willow, Rough, Tatanka, Schaeffer, and Pier fires.
FBAT_Plot_Layout.pdf \Supplements Adobe Acrobat PDF/a file containing a diagram of the FBAT plot layout along with a brief list of key method changes throughout the years FBAT has taken data to present (2020). The diagram depicts (not to scale) the lengths and directions of the fuel transects in relation to the various fire behavior sensors installed on plots. The summary of methods changes highlights namely differences in subsampling, i.e. the number of fuel transects or rate of spread sensors used.
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