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Spatial Fire Management System

Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service. Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts. Spatial Fire Management System. Canada. Presentation Outline. sFMS: What is it? What is it (good) for? - Purpose - Existing implementations How does it work? - Requirements

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Spatial Fire Management System

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  1. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Spatial Fire Management System Canada

  2. Presentation Outline • sFMS: What is it? • What is it (good) for? - Purpose - Existing implementations • How does it work? - Requirements - Database access - Interpolation - Grid calculations - Utilities - Customization • Demonstration • Future development

  3. Fire management information system GIS platform Fire science models (CFFDRS) Daily operations Interdependent ArcView extensions sFMS: What is it?

  4. Fire Weather Index (FWI) Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) Wildfire Ignition Probability Prediction (WIPP) Optimal Resource Allocation and Prepositioning (ORAP) Modules

  5. Fire Weather Index

  6. Fire Behavior Prediction

  7. Wildfire Ignition Probability Prediction

  8. Optimal Resource Allocation & Prepositioning

  9. Purpose • Protection of life, property, values • Spatial information • Fire danger monitoring • Fire behavior prediction • Decision support • Resource allocation • Policy setting & review

  10. Existing Implementations

  11. Scheduled batch processing • Web dissemination

  12. Requirements • Hardware • Software • - Windows 95/98/NT • - ArcView 3.1, Spatial Analyst 1.1 • Weather data • - Weather station locations • - Daily noon observations • Spatial data • - Elevation • - Fuels

  13. Fire Weather Observations Temperature Relative humidity Wind Speed Rain Wind Speed Temperature Relative humidity Rain Temperature Rain Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) Duff Moisture Code (DMC) Drought Code (DC) Fuel Moisture Codes Initial Spread Index (ISI) Buildup Index (BUI) Fire Behavior Indices Fire Weather Index (FWI) The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System

  14. FBP System Fuel Type FFMC, ISI, BUI, Wind Speed & Direction Percent Slope & Upslope Direction Elevation, Latitude, Longitude & Date Elapsed Time, Point or Line Ignition Fuels Weather Topography Foliar Moisture Content Type & Duration of Prediction Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System Primary Secondary Rate of Spread Fuel Consumption Head Fire Intensity Crown Fraction Burned Fire Description Head, Flank & Back Fire Spread Distances Flank & Back Fire Rates of Spread Flank & Back Fire Intensities Elliptical Fire Area & Perimeter Rate of Perimeter Growth Length-to Breadth Ratio The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System

  15. Database access • ODBC • SQL

  16. Interpolation • IDW • Parameters • Wind direction • Elevation adjustment

  17. Elevation adjustment Relative Humidity 1. ln(Ew) = 9.4041 - (2354/T) 2. E = (RHobs/100) * Ew 3. Interpolate E 4. RHfinal = (E/Ew) * 100 Temperature 1. Tsea = Tobs - gz 2. Interpolate Tsea 3. Tfinal = Tsea + gz

  18. Grid Calculation Options

  19. Utilities • Theme manager • Batch processing • Theme information • ArcView functionality

  20. Customization • Configurations • Legend files • User scripts

  21. Demonstration

  22. Future development • FWI • - Startup mask grid calculator • - Interpolated / calculated combination grids • - Delayed retry or shut down for batch processes • - Disk cleanup script for batch processes • - Minimum number of stations reporting • - Wind field script • - Log file • - Weather station labeller • FBP • - Open fuel types list • ORAP • - Utilities to copy and save deployments • - Coverage weighting (e.g. by HFI or WTR) for optimizer • - Improvements to the detection assessment report • WIPP • - Equation editor

  23. Future development: • New extensions • Wildfire Threat Rating • Fire occurrence prediction • - Include fire & lightning plotter • - Include WIPP • - Incorporate PEOPLE & SPARKY • Fire growth modelling • - Incorporate CWFGM & PFAS • Spatial Fire Climatology

  24. Thank You! Questions? For more information: http://fms.nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca

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