Research for the inclusion of pindan as an eligible vegetation fuel type for relevant Emissions Reduction Fund savanna fire management determinations (Indigenous Land Council)

This work can be broken into two components, field assessments (both in the early and late dry seasons) and; analysis and paper production. Field assessments will need to be conducted over two separate trips to collect seasonality information associated with patchiness and fuel consumption as follows:

1. Collect vegetation fuels data for a range of Pindan sites , with time since last fire from one to greater than five years.
2. After burning of a selection of sites by land owners/managers, measure:
(i) post-fire patchiness;
(ii) fire severity;
(iii) fuel consumption (fine, coarse, heavy, shrubs).
3. Collate and analyse the pre-and post-fire data to develop the emissions calculation methodology.
4. Produce a paper describing the necessary parameter values required for Pindan’s inclusion in a savanna fire abatement methodology.