GIS Info for Incident Support
The 2007 Fire Season is upon us and several changes have occurred in the past year that relate to GIS Fire Support. The following page is an effort to compile relevant information via web links and documentation to assist you with providing GIS incident support for this season.
GIS Incident Data Posting
View complete FTP instructions for posting Incident GIS Data to Northwest Coordination Center including ftp server name, directory locataions, required file formats and contact information.
- GIS Incident Data Posting
- National Interagency Fire Center Incident FTP Service
- National Wildland Fire Coordination Group (NWCG) - Data Standard for Daily Fire Perimeters
Please remember to include projection information with your fire points and perimeters.
GIS Data & Fire Links
View a number of GIS data and fire links, including the USGS Fire Data Ordering Site, Oregon Spatial Enterprise Office, fire incident mapping tools, GEOMAC, active fire information, etc.
Geospatial Standard Operating Procedures - GSTOP
Fire Incident Mapping Tools – FIMT
The latest version of FIMT is available at :
GIS Fire Web Resources
Read about Activefires.net and Fireteams.net. Two interagency websites and servers who both provide a central listing of Incident Specific Public Information Websites maintained by Incident Management Teams (IMTs).
Northwest GIS Contacts
- Fire Data Disks – Forest Service & BLM Lands
Base GIS data in support of an incident is best obtained from the land management unit where the incident is occurring. As a pilot project, each Forest and each BLM District Office has loaded base data on a removable disk for ease of transfer. A contact list of names can be obtained by calling the NWCC office 503-808-2741. - Oregon & Washington Federal Government GIS Contacts
- Oregon State Government GIS Contacts
- Washington State Government GIS Contacts
- Oregon County Government GIS Contacts
- Washington County Government GIS Contacts
PNWCG GIS Working Team
Kim Kelly
NWCC - GIS Coordinator
Phone 503-808-2741
k1kelly@blm.gov
http://www.nwccweb.us