Great question Stacy. The short answer for the short term is yes, for now you will have to use FF+.
However, but there are a few common operations that people perform regularly in FF+ that could potentially be possible in IFTDSS. The few you mention definitely fall into that category. We certainly don't want to rebuild FF+ within IFTDSS as it is a very powerful program on its own. We are however already pulling some RAWS data to create the "Auto97th" report for fire behavior. There is work being done on building a gridded weather system which will assist with the problem of RAWS stations not being maintained. So I think your idea is very possible... keep checking back here and we'll update as we gain more information on how we could implement something like this in the future.
Stacy Smith
Weather (RAWS) data and NFDRS are often components of my fire/fuels specialist reports for projects. Will there be ways to create ERC graphs, obtain 90/97 percentile weather data, etc in IFTDSS in the future? Or will we have to use FF+?
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