Table 1 Models and associated algorithms used in IFTDSS.
From: The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System: Functionality for Fuels Treatment Planning
Model | Description |
|---|---|
BehavePlus | The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a collection of models that describes fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. www.firelab.org/project/behaveplus |
Consume | Consume 3.0 is designed to import data directly from the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), and the output is formatted to feed other models and provide usable outputs for burn plan preparation and smoke management requirements. Training and a user’s manual are available. Consume can be used for most forest, shrub, and grasslands in North America. www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/research/smoke/consume/index.shtml |
FCCS | The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) offers consistently organized fuels data along with numerical inputs to fire behavior, fire effects, and dynamic vegetation models. www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/fccs/index.shtml |
FEPS | The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) manages data concerning consumption, emissions, and heat release characteristics of prescribed burns and wildland fires. www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/feps/index.shtml |
FireFamilyPlus | FireFamilyPlus analyzes and summarizes an integrated database of fire weather and fire occurrence. It combines the functionality of the programs PCFIRDAT, PCSEASON, FIRES, and CLIMATOLOGY. FFP can be used to calculate fire danger rating indices and components and to summarize both fire and weather data. It offers options for jointly analyzing fire and weather data. www.firelab.org/project/firefamilyplus |
FlamMap | FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (such as spread rate, flame length, and fireline intensity) over an entire landscape for constant weather and fuel moisture conditions. www.firemodels.org/index.php/national-systems/flammap |
FOFEM | FOFEM (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program for predicting tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and mineral soil exposure caused by prescribed fire or wildfire. FOFEM provides quantitative fire effects information for tree mortality, fuel consumption, mineral soil exposure, smoke, and soil heating. www.firelab.org/project/fofem |
MTT | FlamMap’s Minimum Travel Time (MTT) is a two-dimensional fire growth model that calculates fire growth and behavior by searching for the set of pathways with minimum spread times from a point, line, or polygon ignition source, keeping environmental (fuel moistures and winds) conditions constant for the duration of the simulation. www.firelab.org/project/flammap |
RANDIG | RANDIG simulates fire spread using the minimum travel time methods and inputs on wind, fuel moisture, and topography. |