#Flame 2022 system requirements software

#Flame 2022 system requirements software

The FlamMap software also creates a variety of vector outputs specific to each modeling system within the application. These raster maps can be viewed in FlamMap or exported for use in a GIS, or image format. The FlamMap software creates a variety of vector and raster maps of potential fire behavior characteristics (for example, spread rate, flame length, crown fire activity) and environmental conditions (dead fuel moistures, mid-flame wind speeds, and solar irradiance) over an entire landscape or for specific modeling applications these same outputs are limited to the simulation footprint (MTT and FARSITE). Outputs and comparisons can be used to identify combinations of hazardous fuel and topography, aiding in prioritizing fuel treatments. However, these outputs are well-suited for landscape level comparisons of fuel treatment effectiveness because fuel is the only variable that changes. These limitations need to be considered when viewing FlamMap output using these models in a relative sense rather than absolute sense. Nor will it display spatial variations caused by backing or flanking fire behavior. This allows conditioning of dead fuels in each pixel based on slope, shading, elevation, aspect, and weather.īecause environmental conditions remain constant when using FlamMap, MTT, Burn Probability, and TOM it will not simulate temporal variations in fire behavior caused by weather and diurnal fluctuations as FARSITE does. Nelson's (2000) dead fuel moisture model.Finney’s (1998) or Scott and Reinhardt’s (2001) crown fire calculation method, and.

Rothermel's (1991) crown fire spread model,.

Van Wagner's (1977) crown fire initiation model,.

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It incorporates the following fire behavior models:

The FlamMap fire mapping and analysis system includes FARSITE (Finney 1998, 2004) and FlamMap BASIC (Finney 2006), Minimum Travel Time (MTT, Finney 2002, 2006), Treatment Optimization Model (Finney 2001, 2006, 2007), and Conditional Burn Probability (Finney 2005, 2006). With the inclusion of FARSITE, FlamMap can now compute wildfire growth and behavior with detailed sequences of weather conditions.

Dead fuel moisture and conditioning of dead fuels in each pixel based on slope, shading, elevation, aspect, and weather. Potential fire behavior calculations include surface fire spread, flame length, crown fire activity type, crown fire initiation, and crown fire spread. Fire behavior is calculated for each pixel within the landscape file independently. The FlamMap fire mapping and analysis system (Finney 2006) describes potential fire behavior for constant environmental conditions (weather and fuel moisture).