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Bradshaw, Larry S.; Deeming, John E.; Burgan, Robert E.; Cohen, Jack D., compilers. 1984. The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System: technical documentation. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-169. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 44 pp.

Burgan, R.E.; Andrews, P.L.; Bradshaw, L.S.; Chase, C.H.; Hartford, R.A.; Latham, D.J. 1997. WFAS: wildland fire assessment system, Fire Management Notes, 57(2):14-17; 1997.

Burgan, R.E.; Chase, C.H., Bartlette, R.A; NDVI and Derived Image Data, Data Archives 1998, 1999, USDA-FS, RMRS. RMRS-GTR-27-CD. 1999.

Burgan, R.E.; Hardy, C.C.; Ohlen, D.O.; Fosnight, G. 1997. Landcover Ground Sample Data. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, General Technical Report INT-GTR-368CD,. 1997.

Burgan, R.E.; Hardy, C.C.; Ohlen, D.O.; Fosnight, G.; Treder, R. 1999. Ground sample data for the national land cover characteristics database. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-41, Rocky Mountain Research Station,Ogden, Utah. 12 pages.

Burgan, R.E.; Hartford, R.A. 1993. Monitoring vegetation greenness with satellite data. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, General Technical Report INT-297, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah. 13 pages.

Burgan, Robert E.; Hartford, Roberta A.; Eidenshink, Jeffery C. 1996. Using NDVI to assess departure from average greenness and its relation to fire business. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-333. Ogden, UT:U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 8 p.

Burgan, Robert E.; Hartford, Roberta A. 1997. Live vegetation moisture calculated from NDVI and used in fire danger rating. 13th Conf. on Fire and For. Met., Lorne, Australia, Oct. 27-31, 1997. Jason Greenlee, ed. IAWF, Fairfield, WA 99012.

Burgan, R.E., Klaver, R.W., Klaver, J.M. 1998. Fuel Models and Fire Potential from Satellite and Surface Observations. International Journal of Wildland Fire 8(3):159-170.

Burgan, Robert E. 1988. 1988 revisions to the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System. Res. Pap. SE-273. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 39 pp.

Carlson, J.D.; Burgan, R.E.; Engle, D.M. 1996. Using the Oklahoma mesonet in developing a near-real- time, next generation fire danger rating system. In: 22nd Conference on Agricultural & Forest Meteorology with Symposium on Fire & Forest Meteorology and the 12th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology, Atlanta, Georgia, January 28-February 2, 1996. American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Pages 249-252

Deeming, John E.; Burgan, Robert E.; Cohen, Jack D. 1977. The National Fire-Danger Rating System - 1978. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-39. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 63 pp.

Haines, D.A. 1988. A lower atmospheric severity index for wildland fire. National Weather Digest. Vol 13. No. 2:23-27.

Hardy, C.C.; Menakis, J.P.; Schmidt, K.M.; Long, D.G.; Simmerman, D.G.; Johnston, C.M. 1999. Coarse-scale spatial data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management. Rocky Mountain Research Station. Available at http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/fuelman/

Keetch, John J; Byram, George. 1968. A drought index for forest fire control. Res. Paper SE-38. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 32 pp. (Revised 1988).

Latham, Don J.; Schlieter, Joyce A. 1989. Ignition probabilities of wildland fuels based on simulated lightning discharges. Res. Pap. INT-411. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 16 pp.

Loveland, T.R.; Merchant, J.W; Ohlen, D.O.; Brown, J.F. 1991. Development of a land-cover characteristics database for the conterminous U.S. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 57(11):1453-1463.

Loveland, T.R.; Ohlen, D.O.; Brown, J.F.; Reed, B.C.; Zhu, Z.; Merchant, J.W.; Yang, L. In press. Western hemisphere land cover-progress toward a global land cover characteristics database, In: Proceedings, Pecora 13, Human Interventions with the Environment: Perspectives From Space.

McCutchan, Morris H.; Meisner, Bernard N.; Fujioka, Francis M.; Benoit, John W. and Ly, Benjamin B. 1991. Monthly Fire Weather Forecasts. Fire Management Notes. 52(3):41-47

Palmer, W. C., 1965. Meteorological Drought. Research Paper No. 45, U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau, Washington, D.C.

USDA Forest Service. 1995. Weather Information Management System User's Guide. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management.


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