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The LANDIS fuel module tracks fine fuel, coarse fuel and live fuel for each cell on a landscape.
Patterns in live fuel biomass were related to recent fire history, but the patterns were not consistent among forest vegetation groups.
Efforts have been made to improve live fuel modeling, including detailed studies of individual leaf combustion, with results incorporated into a shrub combustion model for broadleaf species.
The effects of physical characteristics of fuels and fuel beds on live fuel burning and whether live fuels differ fundamentally from dead woody fuels in their burning characteristics are not well understood.
Keep in mind that no matter which eco-option you go with, it's not just the system components that will cost you; depending on where you live, fuel prices will probably be a factor.
Further research is required to assess the potential of canopy reflectance model inversion to estimate live fuel moisture content where a priori information on vegetation properties may be used to constrain the inversion process.
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Live fuels, also called canopy fuels, are live trees that may be ignited in high intensity fire situations (such as crown fires).
Age and basal area were related to live fuels in a complex manner that is likely confounded with periodic disturbances that disrupt stand dynamics.
It was observed that the parameters defined in the well-known two-fifths power law for flame height as a function of heat release rate were inadequate for live fuels.
The fraction of the plot variation, i.e., R2, explained by predictive models for individual fuel components ranged from 0.05 to 0.66 for dead fuels and 0.03 to 0.97 for live fuels in pine dominated vegetation groups.
"You're coming in with live fuels and dead fuels and soils so dry -- and you're seeing this phenomenon all over -- a much more rapid increase in fire potential".
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