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

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

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

12. Scheduled batch processing
Web dissemination

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Database access
ODBC
SQL

17. Interpolation
IDW
Parameters
Wind direction
Elevation adjustment

18. Elevation adjustment Relative Humidity Temperature
1. ln(Ew) = (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

19. Grid Calculation Options

20. Utilities Theme manager Batch processing Theme information
ArcView functionality

21. Customization
Configurations
Legend files
User scripts
Customization

22. Demonstration
Demonstration

23. 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

24. 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

25. Thank You! Questions? For more information: