Fuels and Vegetation Macroplot Geographical Location Data Collected at the 2024 Department of Defense Wildland Fire Science Initiative Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Campaign

This dataset provides the macroplot geographical location data where Leica BLK360 G1 terrestrial LiDAR scans, destructive clip plots, photographs, transects, radiometers, and infrared cameras were utilized to characterize fine-scale variations in vegetation structure, quantify heterogeneity, and capture fuel estimation and consumption. See details for related datasets in the Methods metadata of this dataset.

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Last Updated July 4, 2025, 09:33 (UTC)
Created July 4, 2025, 09:33 (UTC)
Source https://wfsi-data.org/view/doi%3A10.60594/W4Z30G
award Characterizing multiscale feedback between forest structure, fire behavior and effects: integrating measurements and mechanistic modeling for improved understanding of patterns and processes.
creators Eva Louise Loudermilk, louise.loudermilk@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8191-8670 | Christie Hawley, christie.m.hawley@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9105-2065 | Irenee Payne, irenee.payne@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7490-6954 | Mary Carlton Murphy, mary.murphy@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2453-9927 | Andrew Hudak, andrew.hudak@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow ID, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7480-1458 | Chad Hoffman, c.hoffman@colostate.edu, Colorado State University, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-937X
doi doi:10.60594/W4Z30G
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funder U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013316
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harvest_source_title WIFIRE Commons
maintainor Christie Hawley, christie.m.hawley@usda.gov
method Study Site Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield is in Hinesville, Georgia, approximately 30 miles west of Savannah. Of the 273,000 acres, 228,511 were prescribed burned across Fiscal Years 2019-2021. See Loudermilk et al. 2023 for a full study site description. In 2024, E11.5 (597 acres, 242 hectares), E16.2 (628 acres, 254 hectares), and E16.3 (636 acres, 257 hectares) were available for prescribed burning. Located in the western half of Fort Stewart, Units E16.2 and E16.3 are bisected by Taylors Creek. E11.5 is just east of E16.3, where numbered dirt roads 9A is a west boundary and 4A is the east boundary. Before 2024, E16.2 and E16.3 units were last burned together on March 5, 2022, and E11.5 was last burned on March 14, 2022. In 2024, the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Forestry Branch conducted the prescribed burns. The fire was ignited via helicopter and on-the-ground assets. E11.5 was burned on February 8, 2024. E16 was burned on February 10, 2024. While E16.2 and E16.3 are two management units, they were sampled and burned as one unit, referred to as E16.
project Funding Awards RC19-1119 and RC20-1346 for DoD Wildland Fire Science Initiative (WFSI)
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temporal {"endTime": "2024-01-15", "startTime": "2024-01-08"}