FIREMON - Ecological inventory and monitoring

Release Date

August 3, 2020

FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. The system consists of a sampling strategy manual, standardized sampling methods, and field forms. The FIREMON software application has been replaced by the FFI application, which is available here: https://www.frames.gov/ffi. The FIREMON Integrated Sampling Strategy and field sampling guides are still available on the FIREMON-FRAMES Website.

Principal Investigators: Robert Keane and Duncan Lutes

Funding Contributor(s): RMRS Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program

Project Years: 1999-2006

Online Resources

FIREMON-FRAMES Website

People

Principal Investigators

Person
Robert E. Keane, PhD
Emeritus Scientist
https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/robert.e.keane
Person
Duncan C. Lutes
Fire Ecologist
https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/duncan.lutes

Contact

Duncan C. Lutes

Contributors

John Caratti, Nate Benson, Carl Key, Steve Sutherland

Publications

Duncan C. Lutes, Robert E. Keane, John F. Caratti, Carl H. Key, Nathan C. Benson, Steve Sutherland, Larry J. Gangi. 2006. FIREMON: Fire effects monitoring and inventory system

External Publications

Lutes, Duncan C.; Keane, Robert E.; Caratti, John F.; Key, Carl H.; Benson, Nathan C.; Sutherland, Steve; Gangi, Larry J. 2003. FIREMON: fire effects monitoring and inventory system. In: Second international wildland fire ecology and fire management congress and fifth symposium on fire and forest meteorology; 2003 November 16–20; Orlando, FL. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society. 7B.1. 8 p. Available: . [September 12, 2006].