Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Process LiDAR, when available, and/or deliver LiDAR-like synthetic data throughout the focal area to ensure wall-to-wall current and specific three dimensional vegetation data coverage. This will enable assessment of the current state of wildlands and community risk/resilience opportunities. 2. Contractor will segment the landscape into viable potential project areas, where each polygon within the geodatabase is relatively homogenous in horizontal and vertical vegetation structure, slope, biophysical condition, ownership, and land designation class. Each project polygon will be attributed with ecosystem structure metrics, modeled wildfire disturbance probability and intensity, descriptive/topographic attributes, and potential treatment options. This will serve as the basis for scenario planning, optimization, and sequencing, and will make more efficient inevitable surveys and treatment layouts. 3. The awarded contractor will curate all socio-ecological landscape features (values), assigning appraised values and relative importance scores to allow CAL FIRE and partners to weigh tradeoffs between all anthropogenic assets and natural resources. The geodatabase delivery will facilitate the understanding of risks to assets and resources, along with the projected avoided loss and/or ecological effects of modeled treatment interventions at the project level. 4. The geodatabase will provide individual sequenced project plans, packaged with approximate costs using local estimates per project, distribution of likely treatment methods, workforce capacity forecasts, biomass quantifications, and avoided loss/ecological treatment effect estimates. 5. CAL FIRE and collaborators can then use these spatial analyses to create and compare coordinated risk mitigation and treatment benefit scenarios, enabling well informed decisions across complex and multi-jurisdictional landscapes.
