Fire Behavior, Fuels, and Resource Management

Catalog description

Covers the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and analytical tools to understand and evaluate fire behavior prediction systems, with attention to assumptions, limitations, uncertainty, sensitivity, and probability. Explains and demonstrates how fuels, land use, and environmental conditions influence combustion and behavior by using fire models, with discussion on how resource deployment and land management influences outcomes of an incident. Examines and evaluates the tools and approaches for inventory and management of fuels for wildland fires over large, diverse areas in forests, woodlands, shrubland, and grasslands. Prerequisite(s): FIRE 101 .