Fire Behavior Assessment Team: plot photographs

This data publication contains the photographs for plots and transects in which pre- and post-fire fuels, and fire behavior data were collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) on a subset of wildland fires in the United States from 2003-2019. FBAT collects pre- and post-fire fuels and tree data along with fire behavior measurements on wildland fires. FBAT is an interagency group of primarily Forest Service employees with both monitoring and fireline qualifications which collects pre- and post-fire fuels and tree data along with fire behavior measurements on wildland fires. Logistics (proximity to instrumentation/crew members), funding, fire activity, and monitoring questions influenced the geographic regions and fires where sampling was attempted, for instance, fuel treatments recorded in the Forest Service Activity Tracking System (FACTS), as well as tree mortality areas, were each targets for FBAT sampling in the past.These data are collected by the FBAT team to provide visual documentation of transects and plots.For more information about FBAT data see: https://www.fs.fed.us/adaptivemanagement/projects_main_fbat.php.

These data were published on 04/09/2020. On 12/03/2020 this data publication was updated to include a supplemental file that provides a diagram of the FBAT plot layout and a brief list of key method changes throughout the years FBAT has taken data to present (2020). Minor metadata and fileindex updates were made on 06/02/2021.

本数据发布包含了在2003年至2019年间，美国部分野生火灾区域中由火灾行为评估小组（Fire Behavior Assessment Team，简称FBAT）所采集的火灾前后燃料、样带及横断面照片，以及火灾行为数据。FBAT负责在野外火灾中收集火灾前后燃料和树木数据，并测量火灾行为。FBAT是一个由林业服务局员工组成的跨部门团队，成员具备监测和前线灭火资格，旨在收集野外火灾的火灾前后燃料和树木数据以及火灾行为测量数据。地理区域和火灾的选择受到后勤条件（如仪器和人员的位置）、资金、火灾活动以及监测问题的制约，例如，在林业服务局活动跟踪系统（Forest Service Activity Tracking System，简称FACTS）中记录的燃料处理情况和树木死亡率区域都是FBAT过去采样目标。这些数据由FBAT团队收集，以提供样带和横断面的视觉文档。有关FBAT数据的更多信息，请参阅：https://www.fs.fed.us/adaptivemanagement/projects_main_fbat.php。这些数据于2020年4月9日发布。2020年12月3日，该数据发布更新，包括一个补充文件，该文件提供了FBAT样地布局图和FBAT历年数据采集过程中所采取的关键方法变更的简要列表（截止至2020年）。2021年6月2日，对少量元数据和文件索引进行了更新。