LANDFIRE 2001 Refresh Forest Canopy Cover (CC) CONUS
LANDFIRE’s (LF) 2001 Canopy Cover (CC) product describes the percent cover of tree canopy in a stand. A spatially-explicit map of canopy cover supplies information for fire behavior models such as FARSITE (Finney 1998) to determine surface fuel shading for calculating dead fuel moisture and for calculating wind reductions. In FARSITE, canopy characteristics are used to compute shading, wind reduction factors, spotting distances, crown fuel volume, spread characteristics of crown fires and incorporate the effects of ladder fuels for transitions from a surface to crown fire.
CC is derived from the LF Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) product using the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC). Forested EVC values are reclassified from the nine EVC codes to represent the midpoint of the classification.
CC values are represented in 10 percent increments starting with fifteen and ending at ninety-five. Where EVC is not forested or the tree cover is considered to be part of the surface fuel CC receives a value of 0 percent.
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| description | LANDFIRE’s (LF) 2001 Canopy Cover (CC) product describes the percent cover of tree canopy in a stand. A spatially-explicit map of canopy cover supplies information for fire behavior models such as FARSITE (Finney 1998) to determine surface fuel shading for calculating dead fuel moisture and for calculating wind reductions. In FARSITE, canopy characteristics are used to compute shading, wind reduction factors, spotting distances, crown fuel volume, spread characteristics of crown fires and incorporate the effects of ladder fuels for transitions from a surface to crown fire. CC is derived from the LF Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) product using the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC). Forested EVC values are reclassified from the nine EVC codes to represent the midpoint of the classification. CC values are represented in 10 percent increments starting with fifteen and ending at ninety-five. Where EVC is not forested or the tree cover is considered to be part of the surface fuel CC receives a value of 0 percent. |
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| modified | 2025-09-29T00:00:00Z |
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| title | LANDFIRE 2001 Refresh Forest Canopy Cover (CC) CONUS |
