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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 - Database access - Interpolation - Grid calculations - Utilities - Customization Demonstration Future development

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

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

Fire Weather Index

Fire Behavior Prediction

Wildfire Ignition Probability Prediction

Optimal Resource Allocation & Prepositioning

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

Existing Implementations

Scheduled batch processing Web dissemination

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

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

The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System 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 Fuels Weather Topography Foliar Moisture Content Type & Duration of Prediction FBP System Fuel Type FFMC, ISI, BUI, Wind Speed & Direction Percent Slope & Upslope Direction Elevation, Latitude, Longitude & Date Elapsed Time, Point or Line Ignition Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System Primary Secondary Rate of Spread Fuel Consumption Head Fire Intensity Crown Fraction Burned Fire Description

Database access ODBC SQL

Interpolation IDW Parameters Wind direction Elevation adjustment

Elevation adjustment Relative Humidity Temperature 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

Grid Calculation Options

Utilities Theme manager Batch processing Theme information ArcView functionality

Customization Configurations Legend files User scripts Customization

Demonstration Demonstration

Future development FWI FBP ORAP WIPP - 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 Future development

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 New extensions

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