cffdrs
Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
Alan Cantin, Xianli Wang, Marc-André Parisien, Mike Wotton, Kerry Anderson, Brett Moore, Tom Schiks, Mike Flannigan
Last update: 22 February 2024
Software version identifier: 1.8.20, 1.7.1, 1.7.3, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7, 1.8.1, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.18, 1.9.0
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0
This project provides a group of new functions to calculate the outputs of the two main components of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) Van Wagner and Pickett (1985) <https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=19973>) at various time scales: the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System Wan Wagner (1985) <https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=19927> and the Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System Forestry Canada Fire Danger Group (1992) <https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/pubwarehouse/pdfs/10068.pdf>. Some functions have two versions, table and raster based.
