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Spatial Fire Planning
Spatial Fire Planning (SFP) is an optional planning process available in WFDSS that can spatially describe an administrative unit's Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements. WFDSS users assigned the role of Data Manager manage SFP and associated tasks. Using this type of planning in WFDSS, administrative units can visually display language from their Land, Resource, and Fire Management Plans on a map display as shapes. The visual depiction of these data allow for greater data control because Data Managers can upload, manage, and associate shapes to represent their unit's planning direction, and make changes as needed throughout the year.
Note: SPATIAL FIRE PLANNING IS OPTIONAL. SFP is a tool to spatially depict National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) approved guidance from an administrative unit's Land, Resource, and/or Fire Management Plans. Once the decision is made by an administrative unit to switch to SFP, Data Managers choose the SFP option from the Data Management tab. Selecting SFP requires a thorough understanding of the process and tasks required to successfully implement it. See Spatial Fire Planning Considerations for more information.
SFP is implemented using Strategic Objective shapes and Management Requirement shapes that best represent an administrative unit's planning direction. Strategic Objective shapes are managed nationally. Management Requirement shapes are uploaded by a WFDSS Data Manager at the administrative unit level, and are managed at the local unit level.
Administrative units moving to the SFP process can keep their current FMU shape layer when the FMU shapes and codes are representative of the Strategic Objective shapes and codes the administrative unit wants to use for SFP. When FMU shapes or codes require edits before they can be used to represent Strategic Objectives, or a new Strategic Objective shape layer is warranted, Data Managers must develop and submit their new Strategic Objective shapefile (using the same geospatial data standards that were applicable to the FMU shapefile) to the WFDSS Data Team Contact. This individual reviews and submits the data to WFDSS for uploading. When a new shape layer is submitted for upload, it could take a couple of months for the new shape layer to be enabled in WFDSS, as new FMU or Strategic Objective shapefiles are uploaded to the National layer on a quarterly schedule.
The administrative Unit Outline that displays in the Unit Fire Planning map layers is determined by the Strategic Objective shape(s) that are uploaded. When administrative units draw or upload a Management Requirement shape that does not fit the administrative unit boundary, WFDSS clips the shape to the unit boundary.
Spatial Fire Planning can be implemented in both WFDSS Training and Production using the same steps. Since the databases used by each application are independent of one another, choosing the SFP process in one application does not automatically choose it in the other. This makes WFDSS Training the ideal place for testing the Spatial Fire Planning process for an administrative unit. Depending on the agency affiliation of an administrative unit, choosing SFP over the more traditional FMU fire planning is the decision to manage the unit’s Fire Management Plan (FMP) spatially. As a result, a Fire Management Plan becomes a spatial Fire Management Plan and less of a textual document.
WARNING: You should test the SFP process in WFDSS Training before you use it in WFDSS Production. You can choose to switch back to the FMU planning process at any time. This provides you with a safe way to understand how this planning process works in your unit.
What Happens When I Select the SFP Process option on the Data Management Tab?
When you select the SFP option on the Data Management tab, the following actions occur in the WFDSS application:
- FMU level Management Requirements are immediately disabled and can NEVER be re-enabled (they can be recreated but not re-enabled).
- All existing FMU shapes become Strategic Objective shapes.
- All Existing FMU codes become Strategic Objective codes.
- All Strategic Objective codes associated with existing shapes are activated while all other codes are deactivated. Note that active Strategic Objective text associated with deactivated Strategic Objective codes is deactivated.
- Administrative unit-wide Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements are unaffected.
- You can draw and upload Management Requirement shapes. (Strategic Objective shapes are managed nationally and will need to be submitted to a WFDSS Data Contact for upload.)
Is my Administrative Unit ready to switch to Spatial Fire Planning?
Data Managers need to decide if the currently loaded FMU shapes (if they exist) and codes are sufficient for use with SFP, or develop and submit new Strategic Objective shapes and codes. New Strategic Objective shapes may be based on management areas or management prescription categories that are outlined in NEPA-approved Land, Resource, and/or Fire Management Plans. The workflow for transitioning to SFP is determined by the administrative unit. If new Strategic Objective shapes and codes are submitted for uploading, a Data Manager can switch planning processes and begin work on the following tasks:
- Draw and upload Management Requirement shapes.
- Enter Management Requirement text, and associate text with the proper Management Requirement shape(s).
- View, upload or draw Unit Shapes (to include Management Requirement and Other Unit Shapes) on the Unit Map from the Data Management tab.
WARNING: When you select the SFP process option, FMU-level Management Requirements are immediately disabled and can NOT be re-enabled. If you save this data in Excel before switching to SFP, you can recreate this data in WFDSS if you choose to return to the FMU Planning process at a later date. To export the FMU Planning entries, click on the Excel icon at the top of the list on the Objectives page before selecting the Spatial Fire Planning option.WARNING: When you select the SFP process option, FMU-level Management Requirements are immediately disabled and can be re-enabled. IF you save this data to an Excel spreadsheet before switching to SFP, you can recreate this data in WFDSS if you choose to return to the FMU planning process at a later date. To export the FMU Planning entries, click the Excel icon at the top of the list on the Objectives page before choosing the SFP option. However, you can save this data in Excel before moving to SFP and recreate this data in WFDSS if you choose to return to the FMU planning process from the SFP process at a later date.
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