Digital Photo Series. Final Report. Joint Fire Science Program Project 04-4-1-02

摘要

Photo series provide quick and easy ways for managers to quantify and describe existing fuel and vegetation properties, such as loading of dead and down woody material, tree density, or height of understory vegetation. This information is critical for making fuel management decisions and for predicting fire behavior and fire effects. The Digital Photo Series is a userfriendly, web-based project that provides the Natural Fuels Photo Series data and images in electronic form. It includes data from all 14 volumes published to date, with 37 photo series containing a total of 398 sites in database form. System architecture enables searching, downloading, customized site generation, and side-by-side comparisons. The DPS builds on the published volumes both in content and presentation. In many cases, more information has been added than was originally published (e.g., land owner and Bailey's ecoregion), in others, data have been rearranged and terminology (e.g., field names, table headings) altered to standardize among the sites.