- Author
- Rothermel, R. C. | Hartford, R. A. | Chase, C. H.
- Title
- Fire Growth Maps for the 1988 Greater Yellowstone Area Fires.
- Coporate
- Intermountain Research Station, Ogden, UT
- Report
- FSGTR/INT-304, January 1994, 64 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- forest fires | fire growth | mapping
- Identifiers
- geographic information systems; Yellowstone National Park
- Abstract
- Daily fire growth maps display the growth of the 1988 fires in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Information and data sources included daily infrared photography flights, satellite imagery, ground and aerial reconnaissance, command center intelligence, and the personal recollections of fire behavior observers. Fire position was digitized from topographic maps using GRASS GIS software to construct a file of daily fire location in vector format, later converted to raster format for futher analysis. The data base is available in electronic form.