Table 2 Software systems delivering fire effects model predictions to support land management applications.
From: First-Order Fire Effects Models for Land Management: Overview and Issues
Software System | Land management application | Spatial scale | Temporal scale |
|---|---|---|---|
Permitting, prescribed fire planning | Stand | Minutes to hours | |
BlueSky (O’Neill et al. 2003) | Forecasting, permitting | Region | Minutes to days |
FOFEM (Reinhardt 2003) | Prescribed fire planning, permitting, | Stand | Minutes to 2 years |
FOFEM-MT and Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (www.niftt.gov) | Mapping fire-caused changes in fuels | Watershed to landscape | Minutes to 2 years |
ERMit (Robichaud et al. 2007 a) | Design post-fire erosion mitigation treatments | Hillslope to watershed | Years |
Disturbed WEPP (Spigel and Robichaud 2007) | Erosion—effects of fire and other disturbances | Hillslope to watershed | Years to decades |
FFE-FVS (Reinhardt and Crookston 2003) | Risk assessment, fuel treatment design | Stand | Many decades |
IFT-DSS (Wells 2009) | Fuel treatment design | Landscape | Years to decades |