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Wildland Fire-Training
Education and training equips professionals to conduct wildland fire management safely and effectively, and ensures they are up to date on the latest information, research, regulations, and policies. A variety of wildland fire training resources are available from state and federal agencies, the Cooperative Extension Service, universities, and other entities.
Wildland Fire-Wildfire
The Southeast has a complex fire environment unlike any other in the nation. While fire has long played a critical role in the landscapes across the Southeast, it is becoming increasingly difficult for agencies, organizations, and landowners to plan for and respond effectively to wildfire, while protecting vulnerable communities and providing for firefighter safety. The Southeast leads the nation in the number of annual wildland fire events.
Wildland Fire-Prescribed Burning
Prescribed fire, also known as controlled burning, refers to the controlled application of fire to help restore health to fire-adapted environments, benefitting wildlife and timber values. Prescribed fire reintroduces the beneficial effects of fire into an ecosystem, producing the kinds of vegetation and landscapes we want, and reducing the hazard of catastrophic wildfire caused by excessive fuel buildup.
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SE FireMap 1.0 Resources
 
SE FireMap 1.0 Resources
Resources related to the Southeast FireMap version 1.0. Includes technical fact sheet, product information, user guide, data use agreement, and introductory webinar.
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SFE Webinar: Introduction to the SE FireMap 1.0 - A New Tool to Map Fires Across the South
The SE FireMap 1.0 is a new fire mapping system for the Southeastern United States. Developed with funding provided by the USDA NRCS, SE FireMap uses a remote sensing-based approach to track both prescribed fire and wildfire activity on public and private lands across the range of the longleaf pine.
NRCS Workshop 1-24-24
Downloadable PDF for workshop
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Feedback & Recommendations
Space to capture general feedback and recommendations.
General Recommendations & Feedback
This discussion space is intended to capture general feedback and discussion. This allows the project team to easily engage in a collaborative discussion space and summarize feedback.
General TOT Scoping Recommendations & Feedback
This discussion space is intended to capture general feedback and discussion relating to the SEFireMap project. This allows the project team to easily engage in a collaborative discussion space and summarize feedback.
Partner Engagement & Coordination
 
Partner Engagement & Coordination
This discussion thread is available to help track outreach and feedback outside of the Technical Oversight Team. Please be specific with details to ensure appropriate context for potential follow-ups and sharing any feedback with the Scoping Vendor. Currently, the SERPPAS RX Fire Working Group is the primary platform for project updates. Once officially launched, the Landscape Partnership Portal's project page ( https://www.landscapepartnership.org/key-issues/wildland-fire/fire-mapping/regional-fire-mapping/se-firemap ) will be utilized to easily share news updates - currently under development with a target launch date of July 2020. The Southern Fire Exchange will also be hosting an informational webinar this summer to allow for secondary input and broader awareness amongst the fire community.
Re: Partner Engagement & Coordination
RE: July 23rd TOT Meeting Jim Smith Mon, Jul 27, 1:05 PM (1 day ago) I wanted to provide another set of contacts….we have to stop looking at some point but I leave that decision up to you. Tom Spencer, Texas Forest Service: was (and may still be) the lead on the Southern Risk Assessment portal.  tspencer@tfs.tamu.edu Danny Lee, USFS, Lead for the Southern Forest Threat Assessment Center in Asheville.  Danny.c.lee@usda.gov Danny contracts a lot with Jim Fox at UNC Asheville has a lot of “data contacts” around the SE.  jfox@nemacfernleaf.com Jim ---------------------------------------------------------- James L. Smith, Ph.D. TNC LANDFIRE Program Lead 904.327.0055 (cell/office) jim_smith@tnc.org 1822 Swiss Oaks Street St. Johns, FL 32259-9096
General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
 
Re: General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
#7/23/2020 Tall Timbers Interim Report Notes # SE FireMap Scoping INT REP 2.pdf How are you spatially assigning active fire detections with burned area products?  This requires a lot of processing, so efficiency is key. How did you tag active fire detections with FFS OBA? FMT code that estimates burn severity breakpoints could be easily re-written for GEE. # Questions for call # Are there any gaps or proposed modifications we should consider? Could TTRS potentially create some kind of a fire probability layer?  This could be done by examining convergence of all fire detections or potentially by assigning probability to the modelling process. How could TTRS improve the fire modeling process? # What do we like and what do we think is missing? I really the like the multi-faceted approach in considering many data sources that TTRS has considered. How does TTRS get around some of the modeling limitations of BA product?  Using their own modeled products? How does TTRS get around the inherent problems with the prescribed fire data records?  Can they start using area burned as a way to narrow down the fire location? # How can TTRS improve the scoping process? Share their proposed processing or actual processing schemas.  It would be nice to see the details.
General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
Current recommendations for Tall Timbers to investigate via scoping webinars are as follows: inFORM(https://in-form-nifc.hub.arcgis.com/, USGS BAECV, MTBS, active fire mapping applications.
Re: General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
  Hi Everyone, Sorry it has taken me so long to get the scoping report.  I read through the documents.  I like the information the TT team pulled together and they did a great job of highlighting the issues with all available fire data sources.  I have a few comments for the group that I hope are useful. Best wishes, Todd 2020.07.15 - SEFireMap Scoping Report -GR-000000394- - Tall Timbers.pdf Report Narrative: "The overall aim of the Scoping process for the SE FireMap is to develop a robust understanding of the data sources and reporting capabilities that are available for advanced monitoring of prescribed fires on private lands." This is a more narrow scope than the original charter/scoping RFP states "An improved, cohesive system to track both prescribed fire and wildfire activity on public and private lands will serve as a critical decision support tool to maximize the effectiveness of fire management practices – helping achieve the varied objectives of NRCS and its partners such as keeping working lands working, restoring the longleaf pine ecosystem, supporting DoD’s military and training mission, conserving listed and at-risk species, managing for wildfire risk, and minimizing the need to conserve species through regulation." I agree that prescribed fires on private lands are important, but I think the SEFireMap should include all fires on all lands. SE FireMap Scoping INT REP 2.pdf: The Executive Summary here does a better job of capturing the spirit of SEFireMap in the intro paragraph.  It also highlights the problems/gaps with current reporting systems. Background section does a nice job of listing fire history metrics critical for management (e.g. time since fire).  These are things that should be required in the final scope of work. The summary switches to focusing on prescribed fire.  This is a real data gap, but it would be worth identifying which data sources are currently available to monitor wildfires and justification for why SEFireMap doesn't need to focus on wildfires.  For example, does MTBS do an adequate job of tracking wildfires in the SE? The figures provided nice examples of the capabilities of different sensors/datasets to map prescribed burns.  None of them look perfect! I like the examples linking burn permits to different sensors too.  This seems a promising approach, but the uncertainties in the burn permit data will make it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of any prescribed fire mapping.  Would it be worth considering including in the final scope of work a requirement to assess which burn permits were fulfilled (for a subset of recent permits)?  That would allow statements like "Of the X burn permits issued in 2020, Y% of permits actually resulted in a fire. Of those, Z% were detected by satellites..." We should discuss how much detail we should put into the final scope of work.  Tall Timber's work seems to indicate that there is no perfect data source and developing a method to identify common detection could be most promising.  Incorporating permit data will be critical to attribute the satellite based fire/burned area detection as prescribed fires.