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USING MOBILE MAPPING FOR WILDFIRE MITIGATION
IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
by
Brice Cameron Burkett
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF SCIENCE
(GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
December 2011
Copyright 2011 Brice Cameron Burkett
Object Description
| Title | Using mobile mapping for wildfire mitigation in Los Angeles county |
| Author | Burkett, Brice Cameron |
| Author email | cburkett@usc.edu;cburkett@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Geographic Information Science and Technology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-10-14 |
| Date submitted | 2011-10-31 |
| Date approved | 2011-11-01 |
| Restricted until | 2011-11-01 |
| Date published | 2011-11-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Curtis, Andrew, J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Swift, Jennifer Longcore, Travis |
| Abstract | Los Angeles County is home to devastating wildfires that burn hundreds of thousands of acres and destroy many homes every year. There are a variety of reasons why some homes burn and others do not. For example, homes located along a Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) usually means that the home is in what the Los Angeles County Fire Department calls a “Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone” (VHFHSZ). Homes can burn due to the defensible space of surrounding vegetation and the types of structural materials. It is important to understand why certain homes burn and others remain unharmed. ❧ This thesis uses mobile mapping in GIS to capture different fire risk attributes of homes located in Los Angeles County’s VHFHSZ. The purpose of this study is to determine which homes have the greatest risk of burning so that improved mitigation techniques can be implemented to prevent those homes from igniting during future wildfires. The spatial video data is archived for post-wildfire analyses to conclude if a burnt home was damaged due to its building materials and surrounding vegetation. ❧ Results of the analyses have shown clusters of fire hazardous homes and have determined individual homes with high fire risk attributes. Ultimately, this research provides the Los Angeles County Fire Department with timely relevant data to improve mitigation plans and conduct post-fire investigations if a wildfire burns in the studied areas. |
| Keyword | geographic information systems; GIS; wildfire; mitigation; mobile mapping; spatial video; wildland-urban interface |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Burkett, Brice Cameron |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-BurkettBri-380.pdf |
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| Full text | USING MOBILE MAPPING FOR WILDFIRE MITIGATION IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY by Brice Cameron Burkett A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) December 2011 Copyright 2011 Brice Cameron Burkett |
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