The NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire provides an extensive listing of approved terms and definitions used by the NWCG community. It contains terms commonly used by NWCG in the areas of wildland fire and incident management and is not intended to list all terms used by NWCG groups and member agencies. The NWCG has directed that all committee and subgroup product glossaries be contained within the NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire to maintain definition consistency and clarity among documents.Within this guide, users and committees can find instructions on the glossary process; tips for viewing the glossary on the NWCG website; guidance for committees and subcommittees assigned ownership of glossary terms, including how to request, develop, and revise a glossary entry; technical requirements for complete glossary entries; and a list of contacts for support.
The NWCG User Guide for Glossary of Wildland Fire is developed and maintained by the Data Standards and Terminology Board (DSTB), under the direction of the Data Management Committee (DMC), an entity of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG).
Prior to 2021, this information was contained in the NWCG User Guide for Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 937. While they may contain current or useful information, previous editions are obsolete. The user of this information is responsible for confirming that they have the most up-to-date version. NWCG is the sole source for the publication.
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I developed a tutorial and demonstration with TopBraid, AllegroGraph, OpenLink Virtuoso, and other datagraph and visualization tools; ways for non-data-scientists to approach the search and query editors, basics of SPARQL, RDF, and proprietary queries, and a set of copy/paste queries to use when searching and exploring for novel inferences and polygon properties. Too many plates and keywords for this forum, but I’m looking at updating my presentation and tools on a new platform, and I’ll post a link here. The focus of Practicals will be traction on real world incidents and use cases for integrating InciwebRSS, NIFC Feature Services and DataWorld. [Users of professional risk assessment and analysis tools, like RZRisk, might benefit from a look under the hood of query, processes and procedures that undergird many of these systems, although most of this content will be generated with general purpose, open source tools and data.]