Camp Swift Fire Experiment 2014: Vegetation map

This data publication contains a vegetation map derived as part of a prescribed fire research campaign conducted at the Camp Swift Military Base in Bastrop County, Texas on January 15, 2014. The Camp Swift Fire Experiment 2014 consisted of three fires ignited in burn blocks of dimensions 100 meters (m) by 100 m on January 15, 2014. Fires were ignited on relatively flat areas of grass vegetation in moderate winds. This dataset contains a continuous vegetation map across the three Camp Swift burn blocks and the surrounding mowed areas. The vegetation map is provided as an environmental systems research institute (ESRI) file geodatabase.
The objective of the research burns was to create a dataset comprised of ground based and remote sensing measurements. This dataset represents continuous maps of fuels across the three burn blocks, including the surrounding fuel breaks. This dataset is used to delineate the vegetation types found across the study area for inputs to fire behavior models. Properties of vegetation such as fuel loading, surface-to-area-volume ratio and fuel moisture contents are not explicitly associated with this dataset. These properties from the ground field samples might be allocated to the respective vegetation polygons found in this dataset for future modeling use. The dataset also provides descriptive information about burn blocks related to the extent and type of vegetation found within the three burn blocks. The purpose of this dataset was not to develop a new means to map grass, forb and herbaceous vegetation species but rather to map vegetation in the study site using all available information and established techniques.
A summary of the Camp Swift project can be found in the full data download (\Supplements\ CampSwiftFireExperiment2014_Project_Overview.pdf). A United States Forest Service ArcGIS Online interactive website is also developed to describe the study and examine the integrated data quality for the Camp Swift effort (see cross reference below). Finally, a document detailing the procedures used to set up the burn blocks can be found in the full data download (\Supplements\CampSwiftFireExperiment2014_BurnBlockDesign.pdf). These data were published on 09/26/2018. Minor metadata updates were made on 10/27/2022.