caa a22 4500 467905002 CHVBK 20180406152831.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9053-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9053-0 Fine-resolution mapping of wildfire fuel types for Canada: Fuzzy logic modeling for an Alberta pilot area [Elektronische Daten] [L. Nadeau, P. Englefield] The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is used daily across Canada for evaluating forest fire danger. Fuel-type information is one of the inputs required by the models used in the CFFDRS. In this project, three fuel-type maps with a 25 m resolution were produced for a pilot study area located in Alberta using land cover only; land cover and biomass; and, land cover, biomass and leaf area index data derived from satellite imagery. The relationships between inputs and fuel types were determined mainly by the opinions of forest fire scientists and incorporated into a computer program using fuzzy set methodology. Not all the CFFDRS fuel types could be distinguished using these inputs; three of the coniferous types had to be grouped into one common fuel type. Overall accuracy was between 74 and 83% based on ground-truth comparisons. The most accurate map resulted from land cover and biomass data. Detailed accuracy assessment indicated that the overall accuracy increased up to 86% if ambiguous fuel type identification was considered. No combination of inputs was able to define a fuel type with absolute certainty, which is a reflection of differing expert opinions and the small number of inputs used to produce the maps. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 fire danger nationallicence fuel mapping nationallicence fuel type nationallicence fuzzy logic nationallicence wildland fire nationallicence Nadeau L. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 -122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut Englefield P. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 -122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 120/1-3(2006-09-01), 127-152 0167-6369 120:1-3<127 2006 120 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9053-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9053-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nadeau L. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 -122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Englefield P. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320 -122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 120/1-3(2006-09-01), 127-152 0167-6369 120:1-3<127 2006 120 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer