Data Management In The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. An IT Perspective

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1 Data Management In The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System An IT Perspective

2 Outline CWFIS Overview & History CWFIS Components Data Collection and Management Data Processing Dissemination of Data and Information Features and Future Projects

3 Public Safety Information The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System website provides current national information including: Fire danger and behavior Fire and smoke locations Weekly statistics Links to provincial agencies Supports operational response and emergency preparedness programs of NRCan Public Safety Canada CIFFC

4 CWFIS: 1994 Data collection 500 weather stations transmission via satellite

5 CWFIS Process Flow Diagram Detailed View W E A T H E R MSC Data Mart DATA COLLECTION shell ProgControl Restore Unidata PROVINCES (YK, BC, SK, ON, MB, NS, QC, PC-WBNP) Get MSC data DECODE ProvWx2006.pl Upper Air Hourly Prov Wx/fwi Climate Daily CanFWI Station FWI calc FWI Observed Data Source Deliverable Process GEOPROCESSING ArcView ArcINFO Legend Data Warehouse: Fdr, dc Shapefiles Data Mart File Server Archive O U T P U T S National Atlas TWN FORECAST (CMC Scribe) (ETL_SCRIBE) DECODE, FWI CALC Hourly (3 hr) Hourly forecast Forecast daily fwi Daily Grids (fwi, fbp, wx) Daily Grids (fwi, fbp, wx) Maps (for old site) Maps / pngs (for website) TWN R E M O T E S E N S I N G NoFC AVHRR NOAA / AVHRR UMD / MODIS MOVE / Qto1B / LOAD / ARCHIVE Raw Imagery (filesystem) ETL_AVHRR ETL_MODIS PCI GeoComp Geocoding GeoTIFFs (Fire, smoke, cloud, hotspots) AVHRR (data warehouse) Hotspot textfile ArcGIS (manual process) Hotspot Processing (ArcView) Flow Report Regional Images Hotspot shp files on FTP site Maps & Reports (for website) MODIS (data Generate PDFs PDF hi res maps warehouse) WMS CWFIS website Nat. Atlas, NFIS, OMNR, PSEPC

6 CWFIS Products National Fire Weather and Fire Behavior The CWFIS generates daily maps of actual conditions as well as 48 hour forecasts. Historical maps of fire weather and fire behavior are available back to 1998

7 CWFIS Products Fire M3 Hotspot Monitoring, Mapping, Modeling Hotspot locations from MODIS and AVHRR satellite sensors are collected daily on a near real time basis The hotspot locations can be further processed to provide fire perimeter estimates

8 CWFIS Products National Large Fire Database A compilation of forest fire data from Canadian fire management agencies: provinces, territories and Parks Canada

9 CWFIS Products Daily and Weekly Fire Situation Reports The CWFIS has partnered with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) to compile and present weekly fire situation reports. The reports are also generated on a daily basis in the event of a problem fire situation.

10 CWFIS Products Emissions from Forest Fires - Modeling Fire Behaviour and Carbon Emissions A joint NRCan project by CFS and ESS-CCRS

11 CWFIS Products Monthly forecasts of fire danger for 2007 fire season Forecasts based upon CWFIS and Environment Canada s seasonal predictions.. May June These contribute to North American seasonal outlooks and Canada s emergency preparedness plan. July August September

12 CWFIS Products Forecast Lightning Products 24 hour lightning flash counts and probabilities are calculated using forecast data supplied by Environment Canada

13 CWFIS IT Components Data Collection and Management National Fire Data Warehouse CWFIS Datamart Data Processing Daily fire weather, fire behavior and hotspot products Forecast products (fire weather/behavior, lightning) Daily/Weekly fire situation reports Data and Information Access and Distribution CWFIS web site National Forest Information System (NFIS) / CFSNet

14 CWFIS IT Components National Fire Data Warehouse A centralized data warehouse for all national fire information Data collected from international, federal and provincial/territorial sources Provides information for public safety/emergency preparedness reporting as well as scientific studies and analysis Data warehouse is the foundation of the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) Fire Data Warehouse Data access through the National Forest Information System (NFIS) and CFSNet

15 CWFIS IT Components Data Collection and Management CWFIS Datamart Fire Data Warehouse Data requests from Datamart Annual rollups, aggregation Statistical Analysis Spatial RDBMS ETL Processes (Multi-source data)

16 CWFIS IT Components Data Processing CWFIS Datamart SFMS GIS Analysis Modeling Mapping National Fire Data Warehouse Spatial RDBMS Interpolation and formula calculations to generate fire weather/behavior grids Satellite Image analysis for hotspot generation Automated map creation Statistical analysis Fire Weather Normals / Anomalies Fire Growth Modeling

17 CWFIS IT Components Data and Information Distribution CWFIS Website A comprehensive online source of wildland fire information Current conditions, forecasts and historical information 100,000+ downloads of maps and data in 2006

18 CWFIS IT Components Data and Information Distribution CGDI and CFSNet CWFIS Datamart CGDI National Fire Data Warehouse CFSNet Interactive Mapping Applications

19 CWFIS Future Projects Fire Growth and Fire Occurrence Prediction Human and Lightning Caused Fire Occurrence Prediction Short, Medium and Long Range Fire Growth Models Information in the warehouse and datamart can be used to further develop fire growth and fire prediction models, moving from regional scale to national scale.

20 CWFIS Future Projects Comparison of Current Conditions with Historical Normals Warehouse data can be analyzed to try to answer a variety of questions: e.g. How does this year compare with others in terms of fire danger?

21 CWFIS Features Fully automated processing for most products Open source software implementation Postgres/PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, UMN Mapserver, PHP, Apache, Supports OGC, CGDI Designed, implemented and maintained by the WFIS team (6 people)

22 Summary A comprehensive source of national scale forest fire data and information Supports the operational emergency preparedness and response programs of NRCan and PSEPC Aids in furthering research and the development of better decision support systems and tools for fire management agencies Provides supplementary information for policy making

23 Collaborators Provincial National International