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 WFDSS Help
 Welcome to WFDSS Help!
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Expand Incidents
Expand About Incident Groups
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Expand Intelligence Gathering
Expand Data Management
Expand Decisions
Expand Reports
Expand Administration
Expand About the WFDSS Decision Editors
Expand Relative Risk Reference
Expand Organization Assessment Reference
Expand Spatial Data Reference
Expand Landscape Data Source Reference
Expand Fire Behavior Reference
Expand WFDSS Automated Basic Fire Behavior (BFB)
Expand WFDSS Short-Term Fire Behavior (STFB)
Expand Viewing WFDSS Automated Fire Behavior Inputs
Expand FAQs for Automated BFB and STFB
 Field Descriptions
Expand Field Descriptions
 Glossary Resources
Collapse Glossary of Terms
    1 hr fuel moisture
    10 hr fuel moisture
    accuracy
    action items
    advanced decision editor
    analysis area
    analysis ignition
    area
    arrival time
    artificial season
    aspect theme
    asynchronous
    attribute
    autocorrelation
    barrier
    BEHAVE
    BehavePlus
    benefits
    Boolean logic
    buffer
    building cluster points
    buildings
    burn probability
    cadastral data
    canopy base height theme (CBH)
    canopy bulk density theme (CBD)
    canopy cover theme
    clearinghouse
    constraints, land management
    coordinate system
    coordinates
    course of action
    data
    data element
    database
    dataset
    datum
    dead fuel moisture
    default decision editor
    DEM
    department
    desired condition
    digital elevation model (DEM)
    discovery size
    dispatch location
    elevation
    elevation theme
    Energy Release Component
    enterprise data
    EROS
    escaped prescribed fire
    ESRI
    Event Coverage Report
    FAMWEB
    FARSITE
    feature
    Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
    Fire Behavior Specialist (FBS) & Super Analyst
    fire containment time
    fire management
    fire management plan (FMP)
    fire management unit (FMU)
    fire management unit constraint
    fire manager
    fire perimeter
    fire planning
    fire probability
    fire progression
    fire severity
    fire spread model
    Fire Spread Probability (FSPro)
    fire suppression organization
    fire type
    fireline intensity
    FlamMap
    FlamMap
    FlamMap Minimum Travel Time (MTT)
    fuel model theme
    fuel moisture conditioning
    geodatabase
    Geographic Area
    geographic area coordination center (GACC)
    Geographic Area Editor
    geographic coordinate system (GCS)
    geographic information systems (GIS)
    georeference
    geospatial data
    GIS data standards
    global positioning system (GPS)
    grid weather
    growing season index (GSI)
    Heat per Unit Area
    herbaceous fuel moisture
    highly valued resource
    histogram
    hourly records (weather)
    inbrief
    incident cause
    incident objectives
    incident requirements
    Infrastructure
    initial attack
    initial response (IR)
    intensity
    Jurisdictional Agency
    land management objectives
    Land/Resource Management Plan (L/RMP)
    landscape critique
    landscape extent
    landscape mask
    large fire
    latest perimeter size
    layer
    LayerSwitcher
    legend
    lines
    live fuel moisture
    major paths
    management action point (M.A.P.)
    Management Requirement
    management requirement shapes
    map
    map extent
    map projection
    map scale
    max degree of fit
    max lag
    metadata
    National Digital Forecast Database
    National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRSO
    National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (NGDC)
    National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
    National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
    non-federal partners
    North American Datum 1983
    Number of Days
    objective, incident
    objective, management
    organizational unit
    parcel
    P-Code
    pixel
    planning area
    point
    point of origin
    polygon
    prescribed fire
    production rate
    Profile
    projection
    protection boundary
    Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
    published decision
    pumping minutes
    quadrangle
    raster data
    rate of spread
    Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS)
    remote sensing
    representative weather station
    resolution
    scale
    severity
    shaded relief image
    shapefile
    Short-Term Fire Behavior
    slope theme
    solar radiation
    spatial
    spatial analysis
    spatial data
    spatial modeling
    spatial query area
    stand height theme
    standards
    state plane coordinate system (SPCS)
    status bar
    strategic objective shapes
    Strategic Objectives
    Stratified Cost Index (SCI)
    structure
    suppression
    Surface Management Agency (SMA)
    tabular data
    tactical objective
    themes
    time series
    topography
    topology
    Training System
    universal polar stereographic (UPS)
    universal transverse Mercator (UTM)
    values
    Values at Risk
    Values Inventory
    vector data
    vertical datum
    WFDSS
    WFDSS Basic Fire Behavior
    WFDSS jurisdicational unit at point of origin
    WFDSS Production System
    WFDSS Short Term Fire Behavior
    wildfire
    wildland fire
    wildland fire use
    wildland urban interface (WUI)
    WindNinja
    woody fuel moisture
    Heat per Unit Area
    incident cause
    max degree of fit
    max lag
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 Index
 Welcome to WFDSS Help!
 5.2 Release Introduces the Default Decision Editor
 5.4 Release Introduces Accessibility Mode
 WFDSS Spring 2017 Updates
 6.1 Release New Functionality and Enhancements
 6.2 Release Functionality and Enhancements
 6.3 Release New Functionality and Enhancements
Expand 6.4 Release Notes
 6.0 Release New Functionality and Enhancements
Expand Release Notes 7.0
Expand Release Notes 8.0
 WFDSS & NFDRS Energy Release Component
 Geographic Boundary Area
 Copyright Notice