Fire Management Planning in Acadia National Park Using a Geographical Information System
Garman SL, Patterson WA, Finn JT. 1987. Fire Management Planning in Acadia National Park Using a Geographical Information System. University of Massachusetts. Amherst, Massachusetts
'We used SAGIS- one of the National Park Service's geographic information system (GIS) software packages - to aid in the fire management planning process for the Isle au Haut unit of Acadia National Park, Maine. Specifically, we needed to assess relative fire danger (defined here to be a combined assessment of fire hazard, fire behavior, and fire risk) which we put into a spatial context.' Fire hazard and behavior relate to characteristics of the fuel complex, its position on the landscape, and in the case of behavior - weather; in the Northeast fire risk relates to intensity and nature of human use of an area. The geographic data base consisted of natural resource information including slope, aspect, and vegetation cover type. To analyze fire danger on Isle au Haut,vegetation cover types were grouped according to four National Fire Danger Rating System fuel models (H, E/R, Q, and L). Topographic information was grouped according to two slope classes (level and steep) and two aspect classes (mesic and hydric) and all possible combinations of fuel model and topography classes were derived. /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /ISLE AU HAUT/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Garman, Steven; Patterson, William; Finn, John
- Date of Issue
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- FIRE, Fire Management, Isle Au Haut, Natural Resource Management