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title: 'LadderFuelsR: Automated Tool for Vertical Fuel Continuity Analysis using Airborne
  Laser Scanning Data'
version: 0.0.6
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.LadderFuelsR
abstract: 'Set of tools for analyzing vertical fuel continuity at the tree level using
  Airborne Laser Scanning data. The workflow consisted of: 1) calculating the vertical
  height profiles of each segmented tree; 2) identifying gaps and fuel layers; 3)
  estimating the distance between fuel layers; and 4) retrieving the fuel layers base
  height and depth. Additionally, other functions recalculate previous metrics after
  considering distances greater than certain threshold. Moreover, the package calculates:
  i) the percentage of Leaf Area Density comprised in each fuel layer, ii) remove
  fuel layers with Leaf Area Density (LAD) percentage less than 10, and iii) recalculate
  the distances among the reminder ones. On the other hand, it identifies the crown
  base height (CBH) based on different criteria: the fuel layer with the highest LAD
  percentage and the fuel layers located at the largest- and at the last-distance.
  When there is only one fuel layer, it also identifies the CBH performing a segmented
  linear regression (breaking points) on the cumulative sum of LAD as a function of
  height. Finally, a collection of plotting functions is developed to represent: i)
  the initial gaps and fuel layers; ii) the fuels base height, depths and gaps with
  distances greater than certain threshold and, iii) the CBH based on different criteria.
  The methods implemented in this package are original and have not been published
  elsewhere.'
authors:
- family-names: Viedma
  given-names: Olga
  email: olga.viedma@uclm.es
- family-names: Silva
  given-names: Carlos Alberto
  email: c.silva@ufl.edu
- family-names: Moreno
  given-names: Jose Manuel
  email: JoseM.Moreno@uclm.es
- family-names: Hudak
  given-names: Andrew T.
  email: andrew.hudak@usda.gov
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=LadderFuelsR
repository-code: https://github.com/olgaviedma/LadderFuelsR
url: https://github.com/olgaviedma/LadderFuelsR
date-released: '2024-07-20'
contact:
- family-names: Viedma
  given-names: Olga
  email: olga.viedma@uclm.es