[BurnP3+ FR]: Spatial preprocessing of rasters to ensure same resolution, extent, crs, etc.

[katieb1]

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What is needed?

It would be nice if BurnP3+ had the option to preprocess all spatial inputs to ensure they perfectly overlay with each other. This is currently done in the WISDM SyncroSim package, which uses a template raster to crop, resample, reproject all other input rasters. A user has recently experienced the "no fires burning" issue with Prometheus, and I highly suspect it's because the wind grids are not the same extent as the other spatial inputs.

How will this improve the project or tool?

It will improve usability as users will not get cryptic failures due to spatial incompatibilities. It will also improve efficiency if users don't need to preprocess their spatial inputs ahead of time.

Approvals Process

• Testing For Issue
• Merge

[BadgerOnABike]

We may be able to leverage some of the work done over in: https://github.com/BadgerOnABike/BurnP3.HelpR/blob/dev/R/grid_grab.R as I had this problem previously when I was building inputs for BP3 Classic.

The alignment system will likely stay the same though I'll be breaking that code out into 2 functions.

I do agree that this is important for us to do on behalf the user. Typically in this case fuel is the dominant grid and all others must conform to it.