New Jersey treatment effects: Burn units

This data publication contains a vector shapefile representing the 2012-2015 burn units in New Jersey Pinelands, specifically in Ocean and Burlington Counties. These burn units were studied as part of a Joint Fire Science Program project designed to collect landscape-scale fuels data before and after prescribed fires, collect data for the parameterization and evaluation of computational flow-dynamics models, and synthesize data for the evaluation of fuels treatment effectiveness.The data provided here were collected as part of the Joint Fire Science funded project: “Evaluation and Optimization of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness with an Integrated Experimental/Modeling Approach.” From 2001-2011, approximately US $5.6 billion was spent on hazardous fuel reduction to treat an average of approximately 2.5 million acres per year across the United States. Because of the cost and complexity involved, there is a need for implementing treatments in such a way that hazard mitigation, or other management objectives, are optimized. Our work integrated extensive forest census measurements, remote sensing methodologies, three highly-instrumented fuel reduction treatments, and numeric modeling of fire spread to test the principals and physics behind fuel reduction treatments. These datasets provide measurements for the evaluation of fuel treatment effects and effectiveness.Original publication date was 11/14/2017. Minor metadata updates were made on 11/17/2022.

本数据发布内容包含一份向量形状文件，该文件具体展现了2012-2015年间新泽西州皮内兰地区的火烧单元，尤其是在大西洋和伯灵顿郡。这些火烧单元作为一项联合火灾科学项目的研究对象，该项目旨在收集在预定火灾前后的大尺度燃料数据，用于计算流体动力学模型的参数化和评估，以及综合数据以评估燃料处理效果。所提供的数据是作为联合火灾科学资助项目“综合实验/建模方法评估与优化燃料处理效果”的一部分而收集的。2001-2011年间，美国投入了约56亿美元用于危险燃料的减少，平均每年处理约250万英亩的土地。鉴于其成本和复杂性，有必要以优化灾害缓解或其他管理目标的方式实施处理。我们的研究整合了广泛的森林普查测量、遥感方法、三次高度仪器化的燃料减少处理以及火灾蔓延的数值建模，以测试燃料减少处理背后的原理和物理机制。这些数据集提供了评估燃料处理效果和有效性的测量值。原始发布日期为2017年11月14日。于2022年11月17日进行了轻微的元数据更新。