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About SEM Software from Our Partners Contact Free Software for the Wildland Fire Community SEM has been developing wildland fire management software since 1977. Explore and download free software and documentation co-developed by SEM from our partner agency sites. Find Out More SEM Mission and Services SEM was founded in Missoula, MT in 1977 as a nonprofit research and educational organization. Our mission is to help advance understanding of the behavior, effects, management, and role of wildland fire by partnering with fire management agencies to: perform basic and applied research, develop research and management tools, and provide technical transfer through documentation, publications, workshops, conferences, and the web. While our online tools, downloadable software, and documentation are freely available to all, their intended audience is primarily the community of professional wildland fire managers and planners. Software from Our Partners Software from Our Partners The following software products were sponsored by various federal fire management agencies and developed in cooperation with Systems for Environmental Management: BehavePlus : A Wildland Fire Modeling System The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a Windows® based computer program that can be used for any fire management application that involves modeling fire behavior and some fire effects. The system is composed of a collection of mathematical models that describe fire behavior and the fire environment. The program simulates rate of fire spread, spotting distance, scorch height, tree mortality, fuel moisture, wind adjustment factor, as well as other variables; so it is used to predict fire behavior in multiple situations. BehavePlus Home Page FARSITE : 2-Dimensional Fire Growth Simulator FARSITE is a fire growth simulation modeling system. It uses spatial information on topography and fuels along with weather and wind files. It incorporates existing models for surface fire, crown fire, spotting, post-frontal combustion, and fire acceleration into a 2-dimensional fire growth model. FARSITE Home Page FireFamilyPlus : Fire Weather/Climate/Danger Analysis FireFamilyPlus is a Windows software application that supports the analysis of fire weather, fire danger, fire climate, and fire occurrence data required by fire managers to successfully use the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). FireFamilyPlus Home Page FIREMON : Fire Effects Monitoring & Inventory System FIREMON (Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System) is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. FIREMON Home Page FLAMMAP : Fire Behavior within a Map Grid FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc) FLAMMAP Home Page FOFEM : A First Order Fire Effects Model FOFEM (a First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program for predicting tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and soil heating caused by prescribed fire or wildfire. FOFEM Home Page FEIS : The Fire Effects Information System The Fire effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States. FEIS Home Page ArcFuels : An ArcMap Toolbar ArcFuels is a toolbar implemented in ArcMap which creates a trans-scale (stand to large landscape) interface to apply pre-existing forest growth (e.g., Forest Vegetation Simulator) and fire behavior models (e.g., FlamMap) to aid in vegetation management, fuel treatment planning, wildfire behavior modeling, and wildfire risk assessments. ArcFuels Home Page WFIS : Wildland Fire Information system The Wildland Fire Assessment System WFIS Home Page Contact Information If you have questions about , please contact: Collin D. Bevins Executive Director 808 Woodford St Missoula, MT 59801 US (406) 360-5673 cbevins@montana.com...