cffdrs: Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

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://ostrnrcan-dostrncan.canada.ca/entities/publication/29706108-2891-4e5d-a59a-a77c96bc507c>) at various time scales: the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System Wan Wagner (1985) <https://ostrnrcan-dostrncan.canada.ca/entities/publication/d96e56aa-e836-4394-ba29-3afe91c3aa6c> 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.

Package details

AuthorXianli Wang [aut], Alan Cantin [aut], Marc-André Parisien [aut], Mike Wotton [aut], Kerry Anderson [aut], Brett Moore [cre, aut], Tom Schiks [aut], Mike Flannigan [aut]
MaintainerBrett Moore <Brett.Moore@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>
LicenseGPL-2
Version1.9.2
URL https://github.com/cffdrs/cffdrs_r
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("cffdrs")

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