firebehavioR: An R Package for Fire Behavior and Danger Analysis

Wildland fire and ecological researchers use empirical and semi-empirical modeling systems to assess fire behavior and danger. This technical note describes the firebehavioR package, a porting of two fire behavior modeling systems, Crown Fire Initiation and Spread and a Rothermel-based framework, to...

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Published inFire (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 2; no. 3; p. 41
Main Authors Ziegler, Justin P., Hoffman, Chad M., Mell, William
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MDPI AG 01.09.2019
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crown fire
Crown Fire Initiation and Spread
fire modeling
Rothermel
surface fire
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Summary:Wildland fire and ecological researchers use empirical and semi-empirical modeling systems to assess fire behavior and danger. This technical note describes the firebehavioR package, a porting of two fire behavior modeling systems, Crown Fire Initiation and Spread and a Rothermel-based framework, to the R programming language. We also highlight supporting data objects and functions to predict inputs required for fire behavior estimation. Last, this package contains functions for fifteen indices to express fire danger using weather and/or fuels observations. Specific advantages of predicting fire behavior using R, a free-and-open-source programming language, include freedom to adapt calculations to suit users’ needs, transparency of source code, and reduction of workflow inefficiencies, thereby aiding in sophisticated fire behavior analyses.
ISSN:2571-6255
2571-6255
DOI:10.3390/fire2030041