Standards to which IMI products are developed conforming to interactivity level(s) which are appropriate for the instructional design, strategy, media, content, and course specifications.

A group of predominantly interactive, electronically delivered training. IMI products include instructional software and software management tools used in support of instructional programs. IMI products are teaching and management tools and may be used in combination or individually. Used individually, not all IMI products can be considered interactive, multimedia, or instructional. However, IMI products, when used in combination with one another, are interactive, multimedia, and instructional. IMI technology is one of the primary technologies to be used in distance learning. 

This is the lowest level of courseware development. It is normally a knowledge familiarity lesson, provided in a linear format (one idea after another).

Moving a hose lay toward a specified area from the point where the hose-carrying apparatus has stopped.

Intentional application of fire to speed up or strengthen fire suppression action on wildfires. Types of suppression firing include burning out, counter firing, and strip burning.

An accumulation of highly combustible material, rendering firefighting dangerous.

A modified form of broadcast slash burning in which the greater accumulations of slash are fired and the fire is confined to these spots.

A fire treatment type. A prescribed fire to deliberately burn natural or modified concentrations (jackpots) of wildland fuels under specified environmental conditions, which allows the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and produces the fireline intensity and rate of spread required to attain planned resource Management Objectives.

Smoke produced by smoldering material. The flux of smoke originating well after the active flaming combustion period with little or no vertical buoyancy and, therefore, most susceptible to subsidence inversions and down-valley flows.

A foam generating device that mixes air at atmospheric pressure with foam solution in a nozzle chamber.