The Wildland Fire Trends Tool: A web-based data visualization tool for displaying wildlife trend and patterns in the western United States
Date: Wednesday, May 17th at 4:00 pm Eastern
Speaker: Douglas J. Shinneman, PhD, Research Ecologist, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Summary: Accurately assessing recent and historical wildfire activity is critical for numerous agencies who manage fire-prone landscapes. The Wildland Fire Trends Tool (WFTT) is a data visualization and analysis tool that calculates and displays wildfire trends and patterns for the western U.S. based on user-selected regions of interest, time periods, and ecosystem types. For instance, users can determine whether the area burned by wildfire is increasing or decreasing over time for a specific ecoregion or for land ownership types of interest. The tool is available via a web application and generates a variety of maps, graphs, and tabular data that provide useful information for fire science and management objectives, as well as for the interested public.
The USGS Fueling Discovery with USGS Wildland Fire Sciences series is open to the public! Please feel free to forward to those who may be interested.
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