Glossary

An Accepted run indicates to other users that the inputs and configurations are an accurate representation of the scenario.

Activities can help you understand the current stage of a scenario, including if a run is in progress or complete. They are small steps within the larger modelling project process.

The Activity log is a downloadable CSV file of events in a project (user and system generated).

An Area of Interest is a bespoke polygon to help you understand its numerical values better.

An Asset of Interest is an input to locate and define the physical area of an asset, for example, a school, camping area, or festival ground.

The BIP is a web application for risk modelling products, such as mapping layers, for Bush Fire Management Committees (BFMCs) to use to create their Bush Fire Risk Management Plans (BFRMP).

A BFMC is a committee made up of a range of stakeholders in order to ensure the whole community has a say on bush fire management activities. Members include landholders, land managers, fire authorities and community organisations. BFMCs are responsible for preparing, coordinating, reviewing and monitoring the Bush Fire Risk Management Plan (BFRMP) for their area. There are 52 BFMCs in NSW.

A BFRMP is a legislative document detailing a five-year plan of land treatments designed to reduce the risk of bush fires to vulnerable assets.

Bush Fire Weather Regions are polygons that divide the state into sections to represent weather across an area for risk modelling. They may not align with existing NSW weather boundaries. Each Weather Region has its own Fire Danger Rating (FDR) values and Weather Streams.

All BFMCs have unique two-letter codes to distinguish them. For example, Coffs Coast’s code is CT.

A BFMC cluster is a temporary grouping of one or more BFMC, grouped for risk modelling purposes only. When a cluster has more than one BFMC, they must work to produce their BFRMPs synchronously. For example, Wollondilly-Wingecarribee" and "Illawarra" make a cluster called "WWIL".

Change in Risk is a Risk product that compares the following aggregated outputs of two runs:

Cloning a run duplicates its inputs and configurations and creates a new run with a sequential run code. For example, if you clone CR-2A, your new run will be CR2B.

An experimental input is not considered validated data (beaker icon).

The Fuel Management Register (FMR) is a polygon shapefile that defines the proposed burns and mechanical activities for the BFMC.

The Inherited tag shows that a user overrode an input or configuration on a previous run, and it was inherited in a new run.

Inputs are the data used in your modelling run. You can upload and edit inputs at the state level (RMP Settings > Inputs) and at the run level (Open run > Inputs). The state-level inputs are your project defaults.

Max Fuel Loads is a Statewide project that help you understand the worst-case scenario risk.

NetCDF is a weather data type which incorporates changes in time and space, instead of static weather behaviour. It covers the entire state of NSW.

Outputs are the data generated by Fire Behaviour and Impact Analysis runs. For more information, see Modelling outputs.

The Override tag shows that a user overrode an input or configuration on the run.

Point data is a weather data type that predicts the weather for specific geographic location (point).

When an RMP user creates a project, the RMP automatically generates a project code — a unique project identifier. For more information, see Project codes.

Project notes are free-form text fields where you can add details or relevant notes about your projects so that other users understand what the project is about. Each project has a project notes.

A raster is a matrix of cells organised into a grid where each cell contains a value representing information for a spatial location. Spatial information connects the data values to a particular location for the cells in a raster. A common file format for a raster is a .tif.

Scenario runs have a code that identifies them. For Fire Behaviour runs, the code is a sequential number. For Impact Analysis runs, the code is a sequential letter. For more information, see Run codes.

Run descriptions are free-form text fields where you can add a description for a run, for example, what inputs or configurations you changed. Run descriptions have a character limit of 60. You can only add or edit a run description when a run is set up or fails.

The RMP Sandbox is a standalone environment from the RMP (production environment) that allows you to experiment with modelling projects and explore hypothetical scenarios without impacting RMP data. The RMP production environment pushes data to the RMP Sandbox. No data is pushed from RMP Sandbox to RMP. For more information, see RMP Sandbox projects.

The date of your scenario is modelled at, for example, in a BFRMP modelling project, the Current Risk scenario date is 1 January of the following year.

A (modelling) scenario run is how you test your modelling scenario. It consists of a Fire Behaviour run and a Risk Analysis run. It predicts the spread of fire across the landscape at a point in time and assesses the risk to assets.

A shapefile is a proprietary file format that store geographical data (location, shape, field attributes) and is commonly used in geographic information systems (GIS).

Snapshot is a Statewide project to help you understand the current risk.

Statewide to run scenarios to assess bushfire risk across the state.

The Update available tag shows that the default input or configuration has been updated since the project was created.

A weather day is a common known day with specific weather attributes.

A weather package is a collection of weather days assigned to a scenario run to generate a fire spread model for each included weather day.

A Weather Stream is a set of data used to feed into Phoenix to simulate weather conditions (for example, wind, temperature.)