Leica BLK360 G1 Terrestrial LiDAR Scans from the 2023 Department of Defense Wildland Fire Science Initiative Eglin Air Force Base Campaign

To characterize fine-scale variations in vegetation structure, quantify heterogeneity, and capture fuel estimation and consumption, Leica BLK360 G1 terrestrial LiDAR scans were conducted across the G20, G25, and L25 Units. This dataset provides the scans collected before (December 2022) and after (March 2023) the prescribed burns.

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Последно ажурирано Јули 2, 2025, 21:52 (UTC)
Креирано Јули 2, 2025, 21:52 (UTC)
Извор https://wfsi-data.org/view/doi%3A10.60594/W4C306
associated_parties Gregg Chapman, gregg.chapman@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Clemson, SC, https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6735-9867, contributor | Derek Wallace, derek.wallace@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2533-4838, contributor | Vanessa Niemczyk, vniemczyk@talltimbers.org, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL, contributor
award Object-based aggregation of fuel structures, physics-based fire behavior and self-organizing smoke plumes for improved fuel, fire, and smoke management on military lands.
creators Eva Louise Loudermilk, eva.l.loudermilk@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8191-8670 | 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, Fort Collins CO , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-937X | Christie Hawley, christie.m.hawley@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9105-2065 | Mary Carlton Murphy, mary.murphy@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2453-9927 | Irenee Payne, irenee.payne@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens GA, https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7490-6954 | Scott Pokswinski, spokswinski@newmexicoconsortium.org, New Mexico Consortium, Center for Applied Fire and Ecosystems Science, Los Alamos NM , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5753-4132
doi doi:10.60594/W4C306
funder U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013316
maintainor Christie Hawley, christie.m.hawley@usda.gov
method Eglin Air Force Base (EAFB) is a 464,000 acres United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located in Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton counties. In 2023, G-20 (382 ha/946 ac), G-25 (548 ha/1354 ac), and L-25 (117 ha/290 ac) were available for prescribed burning. G-20 and G-25 are located on the western side of EAFB. G-20 is between Range Road 213 and B-70, and G-25 is south of B-70 and split by Live Oak Creek. These units were burned three years ago (2020). L-25 is located on the eastern side of EAFB, south of Range Road 213, across from the C80C Test site. It was last burned 4 years ago (2019). G-20 and G-25 were broken into smaller, more manageable sampling blocks. Using a remnant, undesignated EAFB road, G-20 was split into G-20W (184 ha/455 ac) and G-20E (193 ha/476 ac). Live Oak Creek was used to split G-25 into G-25W (235 ha/581 ac) and G-25E (311 ha/770 ac). In December 2022, 150 sandhills, 30 planted pine, 6 oak hammock, and 23 hardwood hammock/transition zone macroplots were established. These were distributed across the sampling blocks as follows: G-20W: 30 sandhills, 10 planted pine, 0 oak hammock, 0 hardwood hammock, 0 transition zone G-20E: 30 sandhills, 0 planted pine, 0 oak hammock, 5 hardwood hammock, 0 transition zone G-25W: 30 sandhills, 10 planted pine, 0 oak hammock, 0 hardwood hammock, 5 transition zone G-25E: 30 sandhills, 10 planted pine, 0 oak hammock, 4 hardwood hammock, 4 transition zone L-25: 30 sandhills, 0 planted pine, 6 oak hammock, 5 hardwood hammock, 0 transition zone Before and after the prescribed burns, at each macroplot center, two lidar scans were collected using Leica BLK360 G1 (Leica Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland) terrestrial laser scanner as described in Pokswinski et al 2021 and Murphy et al 2024. The first scan was collected without any monument markers in the scan area. In the second scan, the post-burn clip plot was monumented with a 0.5 m by 0.5 m PVC ground quadrat with the top of the frame facing north and a piece of electrical metallic tubing (EMT) conduit—1.27-centimeter diameter and approximately 1.5 meters tall—on the northwest corner. In G-20 and G-25, the following plots did not burn and thus do not have post-burn scan data: G-20: HH1, HH2, HH3 (3 total) G-25: PP16, HH95, HH105 (3 total) In the following plots, the clip plot did not burn and post-burn monument scans were NOT taken. However, these plots do have post-burn non-monumented scans: G20: PP6, HH5 (2 total) G25: SH98, PP22, PP24, T14 (4 total) At plot SH89 (G-25), only a post-burn monument scan is available, as the non-monument scan failed. The BLK Data Manager Utility was used to export the data from the scanner into a proprietary BLK format. The Leica Cyclone Register 360 PLUS (BLK Edition) was used to convert the proprietary BLK file format to a PTX format. NOTE: A prescribed burn was not conducted at L-25 during this campaign; therefore, this unit does not have post-burn data. Pokswinski, S.; Gallagher, M.R.; Skowronski, N.S.; Loudermilk, E.L.; Hawley, C.; Wallace, D.; Everland, A.; Wallace, J.; Hiers, J.K. A simplified and affordable approach to forest monitoring using single terrestrial laser scans and transect sampling. MethodsX 2021, 8, 101484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101484 Murphy M.C.; Loudermilk E.L.; Pokswinski S.; Williams B.; Link E. Lienesch L.; Douglas L.; Skowronski N.; Gallagher M.; Maxwell A.; Snitker G.; Hawley C.; Wallace D.; Payne I.; Yurkiewecz T.; Sanchez Meador A.J.; Anderson C.; Jackson J.M.; Parsons R.; Floca M.; Nealey I.; Altintas I.; Hiers J.K.; Wallace J. 2024. Terrestrial 3D Laser Scanning for Ecosystem and Fire Effects Monitoring. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-277. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 19 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/SRS-GTR-277
project Funding Awards RC20-1346 and RC19-1119 for DoD Wildland Fire Science Initiative (WFSI)
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temporal {"endTime": "2023-03-20", "startTime": "2022-12-06"}