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| Architecture Framework | Architecture Framework (short for Enterprise Architecture Framework) defines how to organize the structure and views associated with an Enterprise Architecture. Because the discipline of Enterprise Architecture is so broad, and because the enterprises it describes tend to be large and complex, the models associated with the discipline also tend to be large and complex. To manage this scale and complexity, an Architecture Framework defines complementary projections of the enterprise model called Views, where each View is meaningful to different system stakeholders. See also: Collaborative System Architecture. |
| Aspatial Fuels Treatment Analysis | A fuels treatment analysis that is based on a single treatment unit with the focus of learning the fire behavior within that treatment unit or the biological effects of changing vegetation caused by the treatment implementation. |
| CD Document | Conceptual Design Document |
| Collaborative System Architecture (CSA) | A framework whose purpose is to integrate two or software systems so that the set of software systems performs some useful task efficiently. The platform is responsible for data fusion issues, managing input/output capabilities to solve the problem at hand, and for defining "handshaking" methods so new or other preexisting systems can be integrated as desired. The CSA can best be thought of as software whose role is to manage other software components. See also Architecture Framework. |
| FARSITE | FARSITE is a fire growth simulation model. It uses spatial information on topography and fuels along with weather and wind files. |
| FlamMap | FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.) over an entire FARSITE landscape for constant weather and fuel moisture conditions. |
| FSPro | Fire Spread Probability |
| FMC | Fuels Management Committee (formerly NIFCG; National Interagency Fuels Coordinating Group) |
| FVS | Forest Vegetation Simulator |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| ID Team | Interdisciplinary Team |
| IFP-NIFTT-LANDFIRE | Integrated Fuels Planning using LANDFIRE-data |
| IFT-DSS | Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System |
| INFORMS | Integrated Forest Resource Management System |
| IT | Information Technology |
| Landscape | A landscape is a spatial area composed of many individually more homogeneous vegetation units that influence the movement and behavior of fire (for the purposes of the IFT-DSS). One or more of these more homogenous vegetation units may then be group together into treatment units for the purpose of analysis and management. |
| Model | From a scientific sense, a model is a quantitative or conceptual specification of relations among entities. |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
| NIFTT | National Interagency Fuels Technology Transfer team |
| PHYGROW | Phygrow is a hydrologic based plant growth simulation model. |
| Project Area | Typically used to define a boundary for NEPA analysis and the area potentially affected by proposed treatments. A project area may be used to define the landscape being analyzed. |
| RERAP | Rare Event Risk Assessment Process |
| SEI | Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| Software System | A type of IT application that provides an interface and fusion tools for one or more embedded models that address a specific set of user needs. |
| Spatial Fuels Treatment Analysis | We define two types of spatial fuels treatment analyses: (1) multiple vegetation units are examined across a landscape but with no explicit interaction between any of the units during the analysis; and (2) multiple vegetation units are examined across a landscape but with explicit consideration of the topology of fire spread and its effects on all vegetation units in the landscape of concern, ie. A particular vegetation unit may affect the spread and severity of fire on adjacent vegetation units to change the outcome of the analysis. |
| TA | Technical Architecture |
| TELSA | Tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analyses (ESSA, Vancouver, BC) |
| Treatment Unit | The area within a defined spatial boundary that is to receive a single or a set of management treatments. A treatment unit is composed of either one or more vegetation units. |
| UI | User Interface |
| VDDT | Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (ESSA, Vancouver, BC) |
| Vegetation Unit | A parcel of land where the dominant plant species is timber, grasslands, etc. Stand is the term commonly used within the Forest Service. Patch is the common term in landscape ecology. The vegetation unit term was chosen for the IFT-DSS to be as generically neutral as possible. |
| WFDSS | Wildland Fire Decision Support System |
| WUI | Wildland Urban Interface; defined as the area where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. |
