get_firetype_area: Get the area burnt by surface, passive-crown or active-crown...

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

This function determines the area burnt by each of three categories of fire: surface fire; passive crown fire; and active crown fire. The areas are calculated from crown fire raster generated by FARSITE. The precision of the area estimate will depend on the cell resolution specified in the FARSITE input file.

Usage

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get_firetype_area(outdir, prefix)

Arguments

outdir

Full path to the directory containing output files.

prefix

Prefix used for the output file names.

Value

A named vector of areas ('surface', 'passive', 'active') in user-defined map units (e.g. square metres).


mbedward/farsitebatch documentation built on May 8, 2019, 1:51 p.m.