1988 Fire Perimeter Map of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
Spatial Analysis Center - Yellowstone National Park. 1988 Fire Perimeter Map of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. Spatial Analysis Center, Yellowstone National Park
The growth of the 1988 fires in the Greater Yellowstone Area from July 14 to October 1 is represented in the form of daily fire perimeter maps. Major fires included in the dataset are the North Fork-Wolf Lake, Fan, Hellroaring, Storm Creek, Clover-Mist, Huck, Mink, and the Snake Complex, consisting of the Falls, Red, and Shoshone Fires. This fire record integrates information and data from a variety of sources, including daily infrared photography flights, satellite imagery, ground and aerial reconnaissance, command center intelligence, and the personal recollections of fire behavior observers. Using GRASS GIS software, fire position was digitized from topographic maps to construct a file of daily fire location in vector format. The fire perimeter layer contains polygons made up of perimeters representing the fire position, each with a single attribute of date. The major fire the polygon belongs to is also identified. Large unburned areas within the fires' perimeters were excluded when possible, but the fires burned as mosaics and many small patches of unburned vegetation could not be identified or excluded. Thus the area within the final perimeter will overpredict the actual area burned.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- Spatial Analysis Center - Yellowstone National Park
- Publisher
- Spatial Analysis Center, Yellowstone National Park
- Units
- YELL
- Keywords
- 1988, Ecosystem, FIRE, fire growth, fire perimeter, Wildland Fire