LANDFIRE technical documentation

Inga La Puma

doi:10.3133/ofr20231045

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LANDFIRE technical documentation

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Inga La Puma

Year:

2023

Type:

Miscellaneous

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20231045

Source:

Open-File Report 2023-1045. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. 103 p.

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Abstract

LANDFIRE (LF), the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools program, is an interagency program that provides comprehensive biological, ecological, and geospatial data and databases for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and insular areas. LF is a vegetation, fire, and fuels characteristic mapping program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior with cooperative involvement from The Nature Conservancy and production management via the U.S. Geological Survey at the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center.

Keywords

LANDFIRE, databases, geospatial layers, biological and ecological data, land cover types

Citation

La Puma, Inga P., editor. 2023. LANDFIRE technical documentation. Open-File Report 2023-1045. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. 103 p.