PredictiveEcology / historicFires

Creates raster layers of historic fires, which can be used with a wildfire simulator.

title	author	date	output	editor_options
historicFires	Alex Chubaty	28 June 2022	html_document keep_md true	chunk_output_type console

Overview

Creates raster layers of historic fires, which can be used with a wildfire simulator (e.g., fireSense or scfm).

Parameters

Provide a summary of user-visible parameters.

paramName	paramClass	default	min	max	paramDesc
.useCache	logical	FALSE	NA	NA	Should caching of events or module be used?
historicFireYears	integer	2011, 20....	NA	NA	parameter description

Events

• loadFires: Loads the historic fire layer for the current simulation year.

Data dependencies

Input data

objectName	objectClass	desc	sourceURL
flammableRTM	RasterLayer	RTM without ice/rocks/urban/water. Flammable map with 0 and 1.	NA

Output data

objectName	objectClass	desc
burnDT	data.table	data.table with pixel IDs of most recent burn.
burnMap	RasterLayer	A raster of cumulative burns
burnSummary	data.table	Describes details of all burned pixels.
historicFires	RasterStack	stack of annual historic fire perimeters.
rstAnnualBurnID	RasterLayer	annual raster whose values distinguish individual fires
rstCurrentBurn	RasterLayer	A binary raster with 1 values representing burned pixels.

Links to other modules

Can be used with wildfire simulators (e.g., fireSense or scfm) to simulate landscape disturbances.