Welcome to the FCCS Tutorial
 

• What is FCCS?
• Why is FCCS Needed?
• Who uses FCCS?
• What can you do with FCCS?
• What is a fuelbed?
• How were the FCCS fuelbeds developed?
• Fuelbeds by region
• Fuelbed pathways
  
• Using the FCCS fuelbeds
• Calculating fuel characteristics
• Predicting surface fire behavior
  
• FCCS fire potentials

• Installing and downloading FCCS

• Opening FCCS
• Welcome to FCCS
• Getting help
• Search for Fuelbed
  • Using the fuelbed search form
  • Information on search variables
  • Refining a fuelbed query
  • Select fuelbed by filename
• Edit Fuelbed
  • Entering and editing data
  • Common/Scientific name lookup tool
  • Canopy - trees
  • Canopy - snags
  • Canopy - ladder fuels
  • Shrubs
  • Nonwoody fuels
  • Woody fuels - all downed and dead wood
  • Woody fuels - sound wood
  • Woody fuels - rotten wood
  • Woody fuels - stumps
  • Woody fuels - woody fuel accumulations
  • Litter-lichen-moss
  • Ground fuels - duff
  • Ground fuels - squirrel middens
  • Ground fuels - basal accumulations
  • Customize fuelbed
• Managing fuelbed files
• Saving custom fuelbeds
• Creating reports
• Printing and viewing reports
• Exporting results to Consume 3.0

• Southern Case Study
  • Step 1: Selecting a fuelbed
  • Step 2: Assembling data
  • Step 3: Canopy
  • Step 4: Shrub
  • Step 5: Nonwoody fuels
  • Step 6: Woody fuels
  • Step 7: Litter-Lichen-Moss
  • Step 8: Ground fuels
  • Step 9: Customize fuelbed
  • Step 10: Fire potentials
  • Step 11: Comparing fire potentials
  • Step 12: Surface fire behavior
• Western Case Study
  • Step 1: Selecting a fuelbed
  • Step 2: Assembling data
  • Step 3: Canopy
  • Step 4: Snags
  • Step 5: Shrubs
  • Step 6: Nonwoody fuels
  • Step 7: Woody fuels
  • Step 8: Litter-Lichen-Moss
  • Step 9: Ground fuels
  • Step 10: Customize fuelbed
  • Step 11: Fire potentials
  • Step 12: Creating a comparison fuelbed
  • Step 13: Comparing results