Active Wild Fire
- Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Description
Active Wildfire is a collection of forest fire data from various sources; these data include fire locations (point data) and fire perimeters (polygon data) as provided by Canadian fire management agencies (provinces, territories, and Parks Canada) and NASA.
A vital task for forest managers in Canada is to monitor forest conditions, keeping track of current fires and assessing the risk of new ones.
This monitoring task, requiring major scientific and logistical effort, is carried out by federal, provincial and territorial agencies working cooperatively. Over decades, increasingly sophisticated tools have been developed for analyzing fire behaviour, assessing fire risk and monitoring fire conditions across the country.
The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) includes daily maps that display fire danger and fire occurrence nation-wide. The system provides information for the public, media, researchers, fire agencies, the federal government and international organizations.
Facts:
Canada has about 9% of the world’s forests. Each year over the last 25 years, about 7,466 forest fires have occurred. The total area burned varies widely from year to year, but averages about 2.5 million hectares annually.
Only 3% of all wildland fires that start each year in Canada grow to more than 200 hectares in area. However, these fires account for 97% of the total area burned across the country.
Fire suppression costs over the last decade in Canada have ranged from about $500 million to $1 billion a year.
Originator
Natural Resources Canada
NASA
Government of British Columbia
Government of Alberta
Government of Manitoba
NavCan
Use Cases
The most appropriate dataset to use for EGIS would be from CWFIS WMS web services as it does not require periodic updates.
Source(s)
Description | Source | Format | Date | Update Frequency | Metadata | Cost | Link | Remarks |
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Active Wildfire | WMS | Current | Daily | Free |
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Active Wildfire | WMS | Current | Daily | N/A | Free |
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Active Wildfire | Gov. of BC | WMS | Seasonal | Daily | N/A | Free |
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Active Wildfire | Gov. of Alberta | WFS | Seasonal | Daily | N/A | Free |
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Active Wildfire | Gov. of Manitoba | KMZ | Seasonal | Daily | N/A | Free |
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NOTAM Forest Fire Airspace Restriction | NavCan | html | Seasonal | Daily | N/A | Free | Polygon extracted from html |
Remarks
Process for EGIS integration
SHP, KMZ Files:
In FME, use the HTTPCaller to download the NOTAM content for all airspace regions.
Search for Forest Fire Area in the text and extract subsequent coordinates for the polygon.
Transform the coordinates to polygon.
Export to KML, SHP or GDB as required.
SHP and KMZ files can be integrated directly into EGIS
TC Smart Maps:
Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.
Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.
TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\WildFire/MODIS_C6_Canada_48h.kml
Customization:
Schema transformation: As required
Denormalization: Not required
Value coding: Not required
Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability
Attribute removal: It is highly recommended as some fields are unnecessary, this will also reduce file size and improve performance
Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization is recommended to improve visualization
Format translation: Not required
Language translation: French version available for some dataset.
Update frequency: As identified