LANDFIRE Program · USDA Forest Service & DOI Wildland Fire Service
Acronym Reference
Companion to The LANDFIRE Dependency Web. Every acronym appearing in that diagram is defined here, grouped by where it sits in the flow — the agencies behind the data, the inputs LANDFIRE ingests, the layers LANDFIRE produces, and the tools and programs that depend on them.
Agencies & Organizations
- BIA
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- BLM
- Bureau of Land Management
- DHS
- Department of Homeland Security
- DOI
- Department of the Interior
- EPA
- Environmental Protection Agency
- ESA
- Ecological Society of America
- FS
- Forest Service
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASS
- National Agricultural Statistics Service
- NCEAS
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- NIFC
- National Interagency Fire Center
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NPS
- National Park Service
- NRCS
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- NSF
- National Science Foundation
- TNC
- The Nature Conservancy
- USDA
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- USGS
- U.S. Geological Survey
- USWFS
- U.S. Wildland Fire Service
Input Data Sources
- AIM
- Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring — BLM rangeland monitoring program
- BARC
- Burned Area Reflectance Classification
- CDL
- Cropland Data Layer
- CFI
- Continuous Forest Inventory
- DayMet
- Daily surface weather and climatological summaries
- FACTS
- Forest Service Activity Tracking System
- FEAT/FIREMON
- Fire Ecology Assessment Tool / Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System
- FFI
- FEAT FIREMON Integrated
- FIA
- Forest Inventory & Analysis
- G-LiHT
- Goddard’s Lidar, Hyperspectral & Thermal Imager
- GEDI
- Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation — spaceborne lidar canopy height
- gSSURGO
- Gridded Soil Survey Geographic Database
- HIFLD
- Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data
- HLS
- Harmonized Landsat Sentinel
- I&M
- Inventory & Monitoring — NPS vegetation program
- IFPRS
- Interior Fuels and Post-fire Reporting System
- InFORM
- Interagency Fire Occurrence Reporting Modules
- IRWIN
- Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information
- KBDI
- Keetch-Byram Drought Index
- LANID-US
- Landsat-based Irrigation Dataset for the United States
- MTBS
- Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
- NDVI
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
- NEON
- National Ecological Observatory Network
- NFPORS
- National Fire Plan Operations and Reporting System
- NIFS
- National Interagency Fire System
- NLCD
- National Land Cover Database
- NRI
- National Resources Inventory
- PAD-US
- Protected Areas Database of the United States
- POLARIS
- Probabilistic Remapping of SSURGO — 30 m soil series map
- PRISM
- Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model
- RAVG
- Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire
- WFIGS
- Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services
- 3DEP
- 3D Elevation Program
LANDFIRE Products
- BpS
- Biophysical Settings
- CBD
- Canopy Bulk Density
- CBH
- Canopy Base Height
- CC
- Canopy Cover
- CH
- Canopy Height
- EVC
- Existing Vegetation Cover
- EVH
- Existing Vegetation Height
- EVT
- Existing Vegetation Type
- EVT-ES
- Existing Vegetation Type — Ecological Systems classification
- EVT-NVC
- Existing Vegetation Type — National Vegetation Classification
- FBFM13 / FBFM40
- 13 Anderson and 40 Scott & Burgan Fire Behavior Fuel Models
- FCCS
- Fuel Characteristic Classification System
- FRG
- Fire Regime Group
- FRI
- Fire Return Interval
- SClass
- Succession Class
- VCC
- Vegetation Condition Class
- VDep
- Vegetation Departure Index
Dependent Tools, Models & Programs
- BlueSky
- Smoke modeling framework linking fuels, consumption and dispersion
- Consume
- Fuel consumption and emissions model
- CWDG
- Community Wildfire Defense Grant
- CWPP
- Community Wildfire Protection Plan
- FARSITE
- Fire Area Simulator
- FastFuels
- 3D fuels dataset and generator for fire behavior modeling
- FlamMap
- Fire behavior mapping and analysis system
- FSim
- Large Fire Simulator
- FSPro
- Fire Spread Probability model
- IFMAT
- Assessment of Indian Forests and Forest Management
- IFTDSS
- Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System
- NEPA
- National Environmental Policy Act
- POD
- Potential Operational Delineation
- RPA
- Resources Planning Act — periodic national assessment of renewable resources
- SDI
- Suppression Difficulty Index
- TCA
- Terrestrial Condition Assessment
- TreeMap
- Modeled tree-level forest inventory mapped nationally from FIA plots
- VSmoke
- Screening model for smoke dispersion from prescribed burns
- WFDSS
- Wildland Fire Decision Support System
- WindNinja
- Wind field model for complex terrain
- WUI
- Wildland-Urban Interface
Note: Agency attributions in the dependency web appear in braces, e.g. {USGS}, and indicate the organization that produces or stewards the dataset — not necessarily its sole contributor. Where a dataset is jointly produced, contributing agencies are separated by an ampersand.
