Before starting your first project, read the Brigade Treatment Comparison overview to familiarise yourself with the key features and workflows when running these projects in the RMP.
This guide will walk you through the following steps:
Creating a project
Uploading your Treatment Areas
Sending your project to your district for approval
Viewing your run outputs
Viewing your project results
Step one: Create your project
On the RMP side navigation, click Local projects.
Click Create project in the top right of the screen to open a pop-up window.
Using the Type of project dropdown menu, select Individual Treatment Comparison.
Type a project Description.
Include the location and intent of your project.
(Optional) Type any additional details or relevant notes about your project in the Notes field.
You can edit your notes later.
Click Next to review your project details and code.
RMP automatically generates a unique Project code.
(Optional) To edit any of the project’s details, click Back.
When you are satisfied with the details of your project, click Create project.
When you create a project, you are the project owner.
Step two: Upload your Treatment Areas
Treatment Areas are where you want to assess the effectiveness of treatments against the baseline. You can upload up to 10 Treatment Areas as a polygon. These can be in the following formats: .ZIP of shapefile, .KML, or .KMZ. The RMP will convert these into a shapefile for Phoenix to calculate the ignitions.
Draw your Treatment Areas in Fire Mapper or a similar tool.
Upload your Treatment Area by dragging and dropping the files into the grey box or clicking on the grey box and selecting a file from your computer.
When you have finished uploading all your Treatment Areas, click Upload files.
Review your list of Treatment Areas. When you are satisfied, click Upload files.
Important: You cannot add or remove files after this point.
Step three: Send your project for approval and kick-off
To start your modelling runs, your district must review and approve your Treatment Areas in the RMP.
Copy the link to your Treatment Areas by clicking Copy link.
Send the link to your district XO via email or teams. You can include the following documentation link for the Reviewing Brigade project (District XOs).
Once they approve your project, your treatment comparison modelling runs will start automatically. You will get a notification when the first run is complete.
Step four: View run results on the map
From your project, click on a scenario's expand arrow to see its runs.
Find the Impact Analysis run you want to view, and click Open run.
On the run side navigation, under outputs, click Geospatial.
Click on the layers icon (square) in the top right corner of the map to see the outputs. You will see your Treatment Area polygon in pink on the map. You can turn this on and off using the toggle
Step five: View Fire Spread
You can generate a fire spread animation for weather streams when viewing an ignition in a completed Impact Analysis run. The Fire Spread is a cell-based animation showing which cells are affected by burns and embers.
From your project, click on a scenario’s expand arrow to see its runs.
Find the Impact Analysis run you want to view, and click Open run.
On the run side navigation, under outputs, click Geospatial.
Turn on the Ignitions & Fire Spread toggle to view ignition points on the map.
Hover over an ignition point to view the fire ID.
Click on the ignition point to view the generation popup.
The generation popup will tell you whether a fire spread has already been generated.
If the popup says Ready to be generated, click Generate Fire Spread.
Fire Spread generation can take up to 20 minutes. When your fire spread animation has been generated, you will see a check icon next to the fire ID when you hover over the ignition and see the play bar at the bottom of the map.
Click the ignition to view the play bar, and click the play icon to start the animation.
By default, the animation plays all weather streams from the ignition in a play loop. Alternatively, clicking the dropdown arrow can select a specific weather stream. Click on the Legends icon to understand the fire spread.
Step six: Compare treatment options on the map
The Compare tab on the top navigation bar now allows you to compare the outputs of the baseline Impact Analysis run and treatment Impact Analysis run for a treatment area, side-by-side, helping you better understand the effects of different treatments.
From your project, click on Compare in the top navigation.
Use the dropdown menu to select the two runs you want to compare.
Click on the layers icon (square) in the top right corner of the map to see the outputs.
The maps are synchronised so that moving to a point on either map or zooming in and out will be mirrored on both maps.
Step seven: Download Individual Treatment Comparison results
The RMP generates a new Treatment Comparison Results file once Treatment Area runs complete.
From your project, click on the Overview tab.
Under Project outputs, click Results.
The Order number shows you which are the most recent results.
Click the Download icon to download the csv/xlsx spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet is a quantitive analysis of the treatments. It compares the treatment run against the baseline run and identifies which treatments resulted in better risk reduction. It includes a column for total asset damage cost (Economic Risk Reduction) that calculates the risk reduction in dollars.