Editing a Landscape

Even the most recently updated landscape from LandFire.gov may not reflect wildfires, fuel treatments, or other disturbances within the past five years. Or you may want to model a landscape with planned fuel treatments to understand the implications on future fire behavior. FlamMap now includes a feature to easily edit all of the landscape themes in an existing Landscape (.LCP) or GeoTIFF (.TIF) format file.

Edit a landscape with the Landscape > Edit Landscape menu command or right-clicking on the landscape tree item and selecting Edit Landscape from the shortcut menu as shown below:

Project window with Edit Landscape shortcut command.

This opens the "Landscape Editor" dialog box which will look like this if no rules have been created for the project.

Blank Landscape Editor dialog box.

To edit a landscape you will need to create "rules", which describe how to change a landscape theme. Several other topics describe the complexities of creating rules and editing landscapes.

Create Edit Rules	The basics of creating and managing edit rules.
Expressions	Using mathematical expressions in edit rules.
Masks	Using vector and raster masks in edit rules.
Saving Edits	Saving edit rules and edited landscapes.
Complex Edits	Try not to make a mess of your landscape.