New Jersey treatment effects: Burn units

This data publication contains a vector shapefile representing the 2012-2015 burn units in New Jersey Pinelands, specifically in Ocean and Burlington Counties. These burn units were studied as part of a Joint Fire Science Program project designed to collect landscape-scale fuels data before and after prescribed fires, collect data for the parameterization and evaluation of computational flow-dynamics models, and synthesize data for the evaluation of fuels treatment effectiveness.
The data provided here were collected as part of the Joint Fire Science funded project: “Evaluation and Optimization of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness with an Integrated Experimental/Modeling Approach.” From 2001-2011, approximately US $5.6 billion was spent on hazardous fuel reduction to treat an average of approximately 2.5 million acres per year across the United States. Because of the cost and complexity involved, there is a need for implementing treatments in such a way that hazard mitigation, or other management objectives, are optimized. Our work integrated extensive forest census measurements, remote sensing methodologies, three highly-instrumented fuel reduction treatments, and numeric modeling of fire spread to test the principals and physics behind fuel reduction treatments. These datasets provide measurements for the evaluation of fuel treatment effects and effectiveness.
Original publication date was 11/14/2017. Minor metadata updates were made on 11/17/2022.