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Fire Science Digest- Taming the Software Chaos: True to Its Promise, IFTDSS Eases the Burden of Fuels Treatment Planning— and Does a Lot More Besides

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A key problem reported by the fuels treatment planning community is the difficulty and inefficiency of evaluating and then applying many planning tools and applications. Fuels specialists have struggled to find, load, and learn all the different fuels and fire planning models, not to mention the interface of running, adjusting, and inputting data specific to each model without the ability to easily share inputs/outputs between models. The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) was conceived as a way for users to learn one interface, access a variety of data and models all in one place, and pass data (inputs and outputs) easily between models. IFTDSS provides planners with the structure to reuse and share their work products, and it provides a consistent, basic analysis framework for all users.

Image source: Joint Fire Science Program

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
June 20, 2017

Categories: Newsletter/DigestTags: fire-adapted communities and fire response, Fuels & Fuel Treatments, fuels management and effectiveness, fuels thinning treatments, fuels treatments, JFSP, Joint Fire Science Program, landscape restoration and resilience, Model/Tool/Technology, Prescribed Fire, prescribed fire management, spatial fire planning

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