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GIS On Fire

• Hosted by the Coeur dAlene Tribe and funded by
  the USGS and BIA

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Thanks You

• We greatly appreciate all of you breaking away
  from your busy schedules to come here.
• USGS and BIA
• Josh Arnold for working out the details

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Who are you?

• 18 Natural Resource managers (I.e. Foresters,
  Biologists)
• 20 GIS - Geo Science folks
• 13 Fire Fuels folks
• Have people give introductions

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So why are we here?

• To bring together both the Fire people and GIS
  people into the same room
• Share knowledge and experiences
• Make new contacts
• Provide better tools
• Provide needed solutions

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What are we going to do?

• Some of you took the ArcGIS class Monday and
  Tuesday
• You should have an agenda for the next three
  days.
• Business dinner tonight
• Friday will be a step by step of the processing
  here at CDA in the lab

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Projects in 27 states
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Native American Program EROS Data Center

• Landscape characterization
• Fire Sciences
• Training
• Intern program
• Data distribution

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Washington-Idaho-Coeur dAlene Tribe

• Tribal and USGS staff exchanged data to support
  each others GIS projects
• The Coeur dAlene Tribe provided hydrography and
  road data in the TNM pilot
• Further cooperation involves Tribal Names,
  improved data, data serving from Tribe, and the
  wildfire application
• Sensitive Tribal data exclusions coordinated by
  Tribal GIS

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LANDFIRE

A Combined USFS-DOI Approach to National Fire
Fuels Assessment
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LANDscape and FIRE management system (since March
2002)
Satellite Mapping Ecological modeling
Forest fuels
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The Idea for the Workshop is Born

• Coeur dAlene Tribe coordination
• USGS (EROS and Western Region via Boise Office)
• Portland BIA Office

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Coeur dAlene Project

• Multi Phased Project
• Started with Structure mapping for defensible
  space three years ago
• Fuels mapping project
• Throughout the next two days you will see parts
  of each of these fire related projects

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What makes this any different than any other
project

• Great number of software to master
• Great number of potential way to create data
  layers
• Great amount of data to manage

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Complex Data Needs
Plot Data (CFI)
Firemon
Coarse Woody Debris
Fuel Model
Vegetation
Canopy Cover
Crown Base Height
Crown Bulk Density
Duff Loading
LiDAR
Elevation
Slope
Aspect
FARSITE Inputs
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Complex Tool
Data Management
Remote Sensing
Firemon
ERDAS IMAGINE
Microsoft Access
See5
Cubist
GIS
Fire Models
FlamMap
ArcGIS
FARSITE
Microsoft SQL Server
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Conclusion

• Wildland Fire modeling is a very complex beast
• Here on the Coeur dAlene we have beat our heads
  against the monitor a fair amount to come up with
  some solutions
• However I strongly feel that those of you in the
  room today have even more innovative solutions.
• We hope that this meeting will be a great
  learning opportunity for everyone involved

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Have a good meeting

• Frank Roberts
• Fmroberts_at_cdatribe-nsn.gov