The Planscape Treatment Effects module helps planners assess the direct effects of treatments within their project areas. With an intuitive interface, users can create and compare multiple treatment plans to evaluate their effects and identify the optimal arrangement that supports their resiliency goals.
Planscape’s treatment analysis is powered by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), a growth and yield model developed by the USDA Forest Service. FVS provides regionally specific estimates of forest conditions over time under both treated and untreated scenarios. This tool leverages the USFS TreeMap dataset within the FVS framework to simulate the effects of various fuel treatments on every forested acre in California.
For non-forested areas, the Treatment Effects tool utilizes the LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool, which estimates post-treatment surface fuel characteristics to support comprehensive treatment analysis.
Once a treatment plan is finalized, Impacts generates a 20-year analysis showing direct effects at 5-year time steps (0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 years). More details on the methodology for calculating direct effects for both forested and non-forested areas.
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