Brigade Treatment Comparison (BRG) projects are a type of local project. They analyse risk reduction for individual treatments within a brigade area by generating a Change in Risk output that compares the current risk without the treatment to the hypothetical risk with the proposed treatment implemented. You can add multiple treatments within a single project, and the RMP will rank them in order of effectiveness (most to least).
Brigade projects have restrictions; see District project approval and Two projects per year limit below.
Application of Brigade project results
You can use the results of Brigade projects to understand the effectiveness of proposed or hypothetical burn locations, analyse risk reduction for existing burns, and help inform the community.
Project restrictions
Two project per year limit
An individual brigade user can run two modelling projects per financial year in the RMP. The project limit resets on the 1st of July. If a brigade has additional modelling requirements, they can contact their District XO and request additional resources.
District project approval
Brigade projects require approval from a District Manager or assigned delegate. Getting approval is part of the project setup process. A project will only count towards your two projects per year limit once appropriate approval has been sought.
Treatment Areas size
Brigade projects can only analyse proposed burns with an area greater than four hectares.
Modelling scenarios
Modelling scenarios experiment with how different treatments or lack of treatments could impact the bush fire risk of the modelling project area. There are two types of modelling scenarios generated for each Treatment Area in a Brigade Treatment Comparison project:
Risk without Treatments (RR). The Risk without Treatments is the baseline run that assesses the fire risk starting on January 1st for the following year with no proposed treatments.
The Risk with Treatments (RT). The Risk with Treatments assesses the fire risk starting on January 1st for the following year with proposed treatments. The RMP compare the RT run to the RR run.
The RMP automatically generates an RR and RT scenario for each Treatment Area polygon you upload; for example, four polygons will generate eight runs.
Scenario runs
Each modelling scenario has two types of runs that are automatically generated, these have a parent-child structure:
Parent run: Fire Behaviour. The Fire Behaviour run predicts fire across the landscape using Phoenix RapidFire fire simulator.
Child run: Impact Analysis. The Impact Analysis run calculates the risk to assets based on the summary produced from the fire behaviour run.
Run inputs and configurations
The Brigade Treatment Comparison run uses the data inputs and configurations from the RMP default data library - this stores the most current statewide data. Ignition points come from the current Statewide Snapshot run - the reference run. The only user-provided inputs are the Treatment Areas. Once uploaded, you can view the Treatment Areas from the side navigation of a run.
Run outputs and results
When runs are complete, you can view the outputs of individual runs geo-spatially on the map and a downloadable project-level comparison in xlsx file format.