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GIS Standard Operating Procedures for Incidents

This project aims to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the use of GIS on wildland fire incidents, ensuring consistent and efficient operations. The final product is an 83-page book available for download.

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GIS Standard Operating Procedures for Incidents

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  1. The Geographic Information System Standard Operating Procedures on Incident Project – aka GSTOP Sue McLellan Florida Division of Forestry

  2. GSTOP Project Objectives • The project objective was to create standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the use of GIS on wildland fire incidents.

  3. The Need for Standard Operating Procedures • Provide people with all the safety, health, environmental and operational information necessary to perform a job properly • To ensure that production operations are performed consistently to maintain quality control of processes and products • To ensure that processes continue uninterrupted and are completed on a prescribed schedule

  4. The Need for Standard Operating Procedures • To serve as a training document for teaching users about the process for which the SOP was written • To serve as an historical record of the how, why and when steps in an existing process so there is a factual basis (not hearsay) for revising those steps when a process or when technology changes.

  5. Project Scope • Developing and recommending GIS SOPs guidelines for incidents to the NWCG. As a minimum this would include: • Naming conventions and structure (e.g. Folder and file) • Standard map product definition • Minimum Essential Data Sets • Data sharing and archiving procedures • Incident team transition procedures • Minimum GIS expectations on an incident • GIS symbology identified • Documentation and metadata procedures

  6. Final Product • The final product is an 83-page book that can be downloaded at: http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/pubs/GSTOP7.pdf Or at the NIFC cache for $3.14

  7. GIS Standard Operating Procedures on Incidents A Publication of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group PMS 936 NFES 2809 June 2006

  8. Geographic Information System Specialist (GISS) • Position was included in the 2006 release of the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1. • The 2006 edition of PMS 310-1 is available on the NWCG Publication Management System web page. Information about the GISS position can be found on page 105 of the PMS 310-1 document.

  9. GISS • The GISS position has replaced the GIS Technical Specialist (GIST) position. • A transition guidance letter has been released from NWCG specifying grandfathering procedures for the GIST to GISS conversion, and is available on the NWCG website.

  10. GISS • The GIST position title and code will be made inactive in IQCS. • The GIST position title and code will no longer be used on incident qualification cards or in the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS).

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