Creating a Landscape

To create landscape from within Map Studio click the Landscape Tools widget along the bottom of Map Studio. In the Landscape Tools box, make sure the Create new tab is selected.

In the Create new tab specify the requirements for your landscape:

1. Use the Map Studio widgets such as Zoom, Basemap Gallery, and so forth to locate your desired area.

2. Define the area of your new landscape by doing one of the following:

   • Selecting an Area of Interest from the drop-down menu (this contains any shapes you've created or shapefiles you've uploaded).

     Important! Your shape or shapefile must be within your current map extent to appear in the drop-down menu, so zoom in or out in Map Studio as needed.

   • Click Select draw mode , mouse to your location on the map, hold down the left mouse key, and draw a rectangle around your desired area, releasing the button when you are finished.
   • Enter exact coordinates, in degrees, for the west, east, south, and north bounds of your desired area.

Important! The maximum area for a landscape is 12 million acres.

Your landscape extent will be indicted by a turquoise border, and surrounded by a 4980 meter buffer indicated with a black border.

3. Choose the version of LANDFIRE data you would like to use.
4. Choose the fire behavior fuel model (Fuel Model 40 or Fuel Model 13) to include in your landscape file.
5. Give your landscape a descriptive name. This is helpful as you accumulate more landscape files, and when using the drop-down menus throughout IFTDSS, which often only display the landscape name not the folder in which its stored. Spaces are allowed in names and we recommend including the LANDFIRE version and keeping the name less than 30 characters. For example, "Smith Project LF14."
6. Select the folder to store your landscape file. If needed, you may use the Add New Folder button to create a new folder for your landscape. If you do not specify an existing folder or create a new one in this step, your saved landscape defaults to the "Playground" folder of My Workspace.

7. (Optional) Add any notes you'd like to include about this landscape. Notes may be viewed in My Workspace by selecting the model run and viewing the right hand metadata panel.

8. Click Create to generate your landscape file.

   

Once you click Create a message appears at the top of the Landscape Tools widget to confirm your landscape is being created. It may take a few minutes to generate your landscape. You may check its status by going to the "Add to Map" tab of the Landscape Tools widget and using the Refresh button. Once complete, check the box next to the landscape to add it to the Layer List widget .

In several places in IFTDSS, such as modeling inputs, you may create a new landscape without having to leave the interface:

Click the Create New Landscape button. The map view will open in split screen mode, the e Landscape Tools widget will open, with the Create New tab open. From there, you may create your landscape following the steps below.

In the Create new tab specify the requirements for your landscape:

1. Use the Map Studio widgets such as Zoom, Basemap Gallery, and so forth to locate your desired area.

2. Define the area of your new landscape by doing one of the following:

   • Selecting an Area of Interest from the drop-down menu (this contains any shapes you've created or shapefiles you've uploaded).

     Important! Your shape or shapefile must be within your current map extent to appear in the drop-down menu, so zoom in or out in Map Studio as needed.

   • Click Select draw mode , mouse to your location on the map, hold down the left mouse key, and draw a rectangle around your desired area, releasing the button when you are finished.
   • Enter exact coordinates, in degrees, for the west, east, south, and north bounds of your desired area.

Important! The maximum area for a landscape is 12 million acres.

Your landscape extent will be indicted by a turquoise border, and surrounded by a 4980 meter buffer indicated with a black border.

3. Choose the version of LANDFIRE data you would like to use.
4. Choose the fire behavior fuel model (Fuel Model 40 or Fuel Model 13) to include in your landscape file.
5. Give your landscape a descriptive name. This is helpful as you accumulate more landscape files, and when using the drop-down menus throughout IFTDSS, which often only display the landscape name not the folder in which its stored. Spaces are allowed in names and we recommend including the LANDFIRE version and keeping the name less than 30 characters. For example, "Smith Project LF14."
6. Select the folder to store your landscape file. If needed, you may use the Add New Folder button to create a new folder for your landscape. If you do not specify an existing folder or create a new one in this step, your saved landscape defaults to the "Playground" folder of My Workspace.

7. (Optional) Add any notes you'd like to include about this landscape. Notes may be viewed in My Workspace by selecting the model run and viewing the right hand metadata panel.

8. Click Create to generate your landscape file.

   

Once you click Create a message appears at the top of the Landscape Tools widget to confirm your landscape is being created. It may take a few minutes to generate your landscape. You may check its status by going to the "Add to Map" tab of the Landscape Tools widget and using the Refresh button. Once complete, check the box next to the landscape to add it to the Layer List widget .