Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Development of Decision Products for Spatial Quantification of Carbon Emissions from Wildfire for North America

FERA scientists are co-investigators in a project linking remote sensing and ground-based products that estimate carbon emissions from fires at regional scales across North America. FERA’s involvement will be to develop Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) fuelbeds for major fuel types in Mexico, Canada, Alaska, and the conterminous United States. We will also assist in linking the Fuel Characteristic Classification System and Consume 3.0 into a web-based information and decision support system that will provide estimates of carbon release and other emissions from fire.

Completion of Fuelbed GIS Layer: September 1, 2008

Project Leads: Roger Ottmar and Don McKenzie

Collaborators: The principal investigator is Dr. Nancy French of the Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University. Collaborators include Dr. Eric Kasischke (University of Maryland), Dr. Ernesto Alvarado (FERA team), and William de Groot, Canadian Forest Service.

This research is funded by National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA)