toolbar button form the toolbar.New Get Weather utility to generate Weather Stream (.WXS) files from various historic and forecast sources.
The Tool will now zoom to area on the map with a visible bounding box after entering valid coordinates or after loading an existing extent from the available GetLandscape History.
A new Contouring algorithm for contouring raster based output implemented. Generated contours can be as lines or polygons.
Set allowable ranges for dead and live fuel moisture values in the fuel moisture files (.FMS) files and bounds/data range checks when using the Validate Contents tool.
Set allowable ranges for weather parameters for both English and Metric equal to current ranges in the new FW21 file formats.
1000 Hour time lag fuels have been added to the Initial Fuel Moisture File (.FMS). While not used for fire behavior runs, accurate 1000 Hour time lag fuel initialization is important when using dead fuel moisture conditioning outputs with SpatialFOFEM.
FlamMap's implementation of WindNinja's Conservation of Mass Solver using a domain-averaged input wind speed and direction has been updated to that currently in the stand alone WindNinja software.
A subset of the outputs for the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is now available. The outputs cover Fuel Consumption, Emissions, and Carbon calculations.
Within the United States, pre-made landscapes in a GeoTIFF (.TIF) format file can be downloaded from landfire.gov using the Landscape > Get Landscape command. This landscape is composed of all eight themes used for FlamMap and Farsite as well as an optional FCCS theme for SpatialFOFEM runs. It uses a custom local Albers projection that keeps the landscape north orientated.
Raster outputs for a FlamMap, FARSITE, or SpatialFOFEM run can now all be saved in one multi-band GeoTIFF file with the Raster Outputs to GeoTIFF shortcut command.
Users can draw lines and polygons on a landscape and calculate lengths and areas.
New options for displaying and exporting outputs in metric units.
Additional GeoTiff support for importing/exporting raster files. Export of raster files (both ASCII Grid and GeoTIFF) now include a .AUX.XML file containing theme metadata.
Only hourly Weather Stream (.WXS) Files can now be used to load weather data in a FlamMap run or Farsite Simulation.
When loading legacy projects or archives with Weather (.WTR) and Wind (.WND) files users are asked if they would like to have a new Weather Stream (.WXS) created based on the deprecated file types. Additionally there is a new Utilities > WTR and WND to WXS command to convert Weather (.WTR) and Wind (.WND) files to the Weather Stream (.WXS) File format.
A reworked Weather Stream Editor,
Single band GeoTIFF (.TIF) Files can now be used for generating a new landscape. Regardless of the format of the source themes (GeoTIFF or ASCII Grid) the resulting landscape can be saved in either GeoTIFF (.TIF) or Landscape (.LCP) file format.
Class units for aspect and canopy cover themes is no longer supported when generating a landscape, only degrees and percent respectively.
The Farsite fire growth simulator has been added. This adaptation of Farsite works a bit differently and not all outputs or features from FARSITE v4.1 are implemented. Improvements to the spotting model have been made to increase performance and the WindNinja conservation of mass solver is now an option.
FlamMap now includes a feature to easily edit all of the landscape themes in an existing Landscape (.LCP) or GeoTIFF (.TIF) format file.
FlamMap will automatically transform and reproject auxiliary themes (both grid and vector) to match the landscape projection as long as the landscape and auxiliary theme have the required projection information. However, FlamMap best practices include: having all geographic data in the same datum/projection, utilizing datum/projection information for landscapes and auxiliary themes, and using local rectangular projections such as, UTM and state Albers.
FlamMap expects all provided projection information to be configured in the Open Geospatial Consortium-Well Known Text (OGC WKT) format.
Runs can be added to a FlamMap project with either a previously saved Run Log or a WFDSS or IFTDSS inputs file.
Drawing vectors and saving as shapefiles has been improved to eliminate the confusion of creating different shapefile types. Unfortunately this removes the beloved driptorch toolbar button form the toolbar.