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FFI: FEAT-FIREMON Integrated

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FFI: FEAT-FIREMON icon

FFI is designed to help managers fulfill monitoring requirements set forth in Federal legislation and agency policy. It supports scalable (project to landscape scale) monitoring at the field and research level, and encourages cooperative, interagency data management and information sharing. FFI is a plot-based ecological monitoring tool that provides software components for: data entry, data storage, summary reports and analysis tools. FFI-Lite provides the features of FFI for field data collection. The standard FFI protocols and Protocol Manager allow FFI to be used for monitoring in a broad range of ecosystems. Software, user guides, training materials and reference information are available on the FFI-FRAMES website.

Go to the FFI-FRAMES website

For a quick overview see our FFI: Ecological Monitoring Story Map.

Principal Investigator: Duncan Lutes

Funding Contributor(s):
USDI National Park Service
USFS Fire and Aviation Management
USFS Wildland Fire Management Research, Development & Application
Additional Funding:
Fuels Management Committee


Key Uses
Inventory, Monitoring and Assessments
Scale
Local
User Experience Level
Intermediate
What do you need to get started?
Selection of field data collection protocols based on project objectives.
Outputs
Unstratified and stratified data summary reports of monitoring data. Create files for FOFEM, FuelCalc and FVS=FFE
Strengths
Provides information needed in the adaptive management cycle and to meet monitoring requirements.
Limitations
No connection to GIS. Training suggested

Online Resources

Related Tools

Principal Investigator

  • Person

    Duncan C. Lutes

    Fire Ecologist

Research Collaborators

Nate Benson

MaryBeth Keifer

Martha Isbister

Contributors

John Caratti

Erik Brilz

Marc Dousset

Publications

Related External Publication

  • USDI National Park Service. 2003. Fire Monitoring Handbook. Boise (ID): Fire Management Program Center, National Interagency Fire Center. 274p. 

Last updated January 5, 2026