A Glossary of terms often used in the FAM community.
| Acronym | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ABS | Aviation Business System |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive Executive |
| ALMS | Automated Lightning Mapping System |
| AMIS | Aviation Management Information System |
| ATMU | Advanced Technology Meteorological Unit |
| AWSR | Annual Wildfire Summary Report |
| BI | Burning Index / Business Intelligence |
| BIA | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management |
| CSV | Character Separated Value |
| DOI | United States Department of Interior |
| EMC | Equilibrium Moisture Content |
| ERC | Energy Release Component |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation and Science |
| ESRI | Environmental Systems Research Institute |
| ETL | Extract, Transform, Load |
| FAMWEB | Fire and Aviation Management Web Application - A legacy FAM application portal that has been moved to the FAM IT website |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FEPMIS | Federal Excess Property Management Information System |
| FFM | Fire Fuel Moisture |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| FIRESTAT | Fire Statistics System |
| FS | Forest Service |
| GACC | Geographic Area Coordination Center |
| GDT | Geographic Data Technology |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GNIS | Geographic Names Information System |
| HUC | Hydrologic Unit Code |
| IC | Ignition Component |
| ICS 209 | Incident Status Summary |
| IMSR | National Incident Management Situation Report |
| JAD | Joint Application Design |
| KCFAST | Kansas City Fire Access Software |
| LOV | List of Values |
| MOLAP | Multidimensional Online Analytical Processing |
| NASF | National Association of State Foresters |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NED | National Elevation Dataset |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NFDR | National Fire Danger Rating |
| NFDRS | National Fire Danger Rating System |
| NFES | National Fire Equipment System |
| NHD | National Hydrologic Database |
| NIFMID | National Interagency Fire Management Information Database |
| NITC | National Interagency Technology Center |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| NTAD | National Transportation Atlas Database |
| NVC | Net Value Change |
| NWCG | National Wildfire Coordinating Group |
| NWIS | National Water Information System |
| NWS | National Weather Service |
| ODS | Operational Data Store |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing |
| RAWS | Remote Automatic Weather System |
| SC | Spread Component |
| SDE | Spatial Data Engine |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SIT/209 | National Interagency Situation Report/Incident Information Summary |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| WIMS | Weather Information Management System |
| WX | WIMS historical |