FFI Data Entry

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FFI Data Entry
For New and FIREMON Users
Presented by Duncan Lutes
frames.nbii.gov/ffi
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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Macroplot (Found on the Plot Description in
  FIREMON)
• Location, elevation, slope, aspect
• User variables Organization codes in FIREMON

• Plot description
• Biophysical settings, geology and soils,
  overstory composition, ground cover and cover of
  trees, shrubs, herbaceous veg., fuels, fire
  behavior, photos, comments
• No database key in FFI

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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Tree Data
• Individual trees (Mature trees)
• Trees by height class (Seedlings)
• Trees by diameter class (Saplings)
• In FFI these are available together on one form
  or as individual methods.

Names in parentheses are from FIREMON
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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Surface Fuels (Fuel Load)
• Fine woody debris
• Coarse woody debris
• Duff and litter
• Unlimited number of transects, duff and litter
  measurements points per macroplot

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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Surface Fuels - Vegetation (Fuel Load)
• Cover and height of live and dead, herbs and
  shrubs
• Sampled in 6 ft dia. by 6 ft high sampling
  cylinders
• Unlimited number of samples per macroplot

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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Cover Species Composition
• Species, status, size class, age class, cover,
  height
• Sampled on macroplot

• Cover/Frequency
• Species, status, nested rooted frequency, cover
  and height sampled on quadrats/microplots
• Unlimited number of quadrats per transect

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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Cover Line Intercept
• Species, status, size class, age class, start
  stop, height

• Cover Points by Transect (Point
  Intercept- Transect, Point Intercept-Frame)
• Species, status, hits/transect

• Density Quadrats
• Species, status, size class, age class, count,
  height
• Unlimited number quadrats/transect

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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Density Belts
• Species, status, size class, age class, count,
  height

• Rare Plant Species
• Species, location, status, stage, size, height

• Composite Burn Index
• Subject rating in five strata of change due to
  fire

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From the FIREMON Data Entry forms

• Fire Behavior
• Observations related to fire behavior such as
  temperature, humidity, fire behavior fuel
  model, etc.
• Can be used to collect data at multiple times
  during a fire

• Metadata
• Stored primarily at the Project level. Some data
  can be stored at the Macroplot level.

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From the FEAT Data Entry forms

• Biomass - Plants
• Clip-and-weight method for determining veg.
  biomass

• Pilot Sampling
• Counts in four quadrat sizes. Used to suggest
  the best quadrat size to be used in species
  sampling.

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From the FEAT Data Entry forms

• Cover - Points
• Point by point based assessment of cover

• Post Burn Severity
• Point by point based assessment of burn severity
  used in the Fire Monitoring Handbook

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New Data Entry forms

• Biomass - Fuels
• Record biomass from photo series or other
  estimate methods for different fuelbed
  components

• Fuel Characterization Classification System
• Ecoregion, veg. form, structural stage, cover
  type, change agent, fire regime, Fire Regime
  Condition Class
• Used to help assign macroplot to an FCCS fuelbed

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New Data Entry forms

• Disturbance History
• Record one or more disturbance events on the
  macroplot

• Surface Fuels - Piles
• Pile shape, dimensions, packing ratio, specific
  gravity, soil content

• Surface Fuels Alaska Duff and Litter
• Litter, live and dead moss, upper and lower
  duff, lichen

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Other

• Fuel Constant Sets new to FFI
• User modifiable QMD, specific gravity and bulk
  density of fuel components.

• Subplot fraction field new to FFI
• subplot samples stored in the same data table

• Picklists from FEAT
• Short species lists pulled from the local
  species list and made available on the
  species/item dropdown menus

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Questions? Look for updates on the FFI
Website frames.nbii.gov/ffi
Duncan Lutes dlutes_at_fs.fed.us 406-329-4761