FCCS Tutorial STUDENT WORKBOOK

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• Groundation
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• Publié par: Phiwyung
• Nombre de lectures: 52
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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FCCS Tutorial STUDENT WORKBOOK Land Management Tool Training Package Fire and Environmental Applications Team USFS - PNW Research Station Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory 400 North 34th Street, Suite 201 Seattle, Washington 98103 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................................................. 1 Instructions for Installing the FCCS Software.........................................................3 FCCS TUTORIAL 5 Welcome to the FCCS 1.0 Tutorial...................................................................... 6 Part 1: Introduction to Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS) 1.0 ... 7 What is FCCS? ..................................................................................................8 Why is the FCCS needed?...................................................................................9 Who uses FCCS? .............................................................................................10 What can you do with FCCS? ............................................................................11 What is a Fuelbed? ..........................................................................................12 How Were the FCCS Fuelbeds Developed?...........................................................13 Fuelbeds by Region .........................................................................................14 Using the FCCS Fuelbeds..................................................................................15 Calculating Fuel Characteristics .........................................................................17 FCCS Fire Potentials ........................................................................................18 Fire Behavior Potential Index (0-9) .................................................................19 Crown Fire Potential Index (0-9).....................................................................20 Available Fuel x (0-9) ................................................................21 Part 2: Installing FCCS v 1.0 ............................................................................ 22 Downloading FCCS ..........................................................................................23 Installing FCCS ...............................................................................................24 Part 3: Using FCCS........................................................................................... 25 Opening FCCS.................................................................................................26 Welcome to FCCS............................................................................................27 Getting Help ...................................................................................................28 Search for Fuelbed29 Using the d Search Form ......................................................................30 Information on Selection Criteria ....................................................................31 Refining a Fuelbed Query ..............................................................................32 Select Fuelbed by Filename............................................................................33 Edit Fuelbed34 Entering and Editing Data35 Common/Scientific Name Lookup Tool.............................................................36 Canopy - Trees37 Canopy – Snags...........................................................................................38 Canopy - Ladder Fuels ..................................................................................39 Shrubs........................................................................................................40 Nonwoody Fuels41 Woody Fuels - All Downed and Dead Wood ......................................................42 Woody Fuels - Sound Wood ...........................................................................43 y Fuels - Rotten Wood44 Woody Fuels - Stumps45 Woody Fuels - Woody Fuel Accumulations........................................................46 Litter-Lichen-Moss........................................................................................47 Ground Fuels - Duff ......................................................................................48 Squirrel Middens.....................................................................50 els - Basal Accumulations................................................................51 Customize Fuelbed .......................................................................................52 Managing Fuelbed Files ....................................................................................53 Saving Custom Fuelbeds ..................................................................................54 Creating Reports .............................................................................................55 FCCS Fire Potentials Report ...........................................................................56 General Report ............................................................................................57 Strata & Categories Report ............................................................................58 Input Report................................................................................................59 Printing and Viewing Reports60 Exporting Fuelbeds to Consume 3.0 ...................................................................61 Part 4: Case Studies......................................................................................... 62 Southern Case Study .......................................................................................63 Step 1: Selecting FCCS Fuelbed to Customize...................................................64 Step 2: Assembling Data...............................................................................65 Step 3: Editing Canopy Data..........................................................................66 4: Editing Shrub Data............................................................................68 Step 5: Entering Nonwoody Fuels DAta ...........................................................69 6: Editing Woody Fuels DAta70 Step 7: Editing Litter-Lichen-Moss Data71 8: Entering Ground Fuels Data................................................................72 Step 9: Customize Fuelbed Screen..................................................................73 Step 10: Calculating FCCS Fire Potentials ........................................................74 Step 11: Comparing Fire Potential Reports.......................................................75 Step 12: Reviewing Calculated Fuel Characteristics ...........................................76 Western Case Study ........................................................................................77 Step 1: Selecting FCCS Fuelbed to Customize...................................................78 2: Assembling Fuelbed Data ...................................................................79 Step 3: Editing Canopy Data..........................................................................80 4: Entering Snag Data ...........................................................................83 Step 5: En Shrub Data85 6: Entering Nonwoody Fuels Data............................................................86 Step 7: Editing Woody Fuels Data87 8: Editing Litter-Lichen-Moss Data...........................................................89 Step 9: Editing Ground Fuels Data..................................................................90 Step 10: Customize Fuelbed Screen................................................................91 Step 11: Calculating FCCS Fire Potentials ........................................................93 Step 12: Creating a Comparison Fuelbed96 Step 13: Comparing Calculated Results98 Glossary......................................................................................................... 100 FCCS Tutorial -- 1 INTRODUCTION Development of spatial fuelbed property layers is one of the most important tasks required to operate fuel and fire management decision support systems and dynamic vegetation models. Knowledge of wildland fuelbed characteristics always has been important to fire managers, and is becoming increasingly important to ecologists, air quality managers, and carbon balance modelers. As the source of all fire behavior and fire effects models, fuelbeds must be characterized and mapped before any calculation of fire potential can be made. Fuel mapping, hazard assessment, evaluation of fuel treatment options and sequences, and monitoring fire effects all require a consistent and scientifically applied fuel characteristic classification system. It is prohibitively difficult to inventory all fuelbed characteristics every time it is necessary to predict events or to make management decisions. Fuelbeds are structurally complex; they vary widely in their physical attributes, potential fire behavior and effects, and in the options they present for fire control and use. Variation in fuelbed characteristics is not random or chaotic but is the expression of ecological processes working over time, of natural disturbance events, and of human manipulation. The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), released in August 2005, was designed to provide fuel managers with a nationally consistent and durable system to characterize and classify fuelbeds and to provide numerical inputs to fire behavior, fire effects, and dynamic vegetation models. Using FCCS The FCCS offers a set of fuelbeds, representing various fuel environments throughout the United States, that were compiled from published and unpublished literature, fuels