R5 FAM GIS Base Data

2015 SARGIS7

Fire & Aviation Management Lorri Peltz-Lewis, USFS R5 FAM GIS Coordinator,

Incident Support – the equipment & pre-staging (North & South Ops):

FINALLY new plotters for

2015!!

GISS Hard Drives: Vision:

•Make it simple

•Usable by all – suppression, planning, restoration

•Theme based approach

•Keep it current

•Layer files

•Metadata

FAM GIS Lab Data – Fire Data Stewardship & Support:

•Fire uses & consumes all imagery, all roads, parcels, ownership, etc. •Fire Retardant Avoidance – Hydrology, Threatened, Endangered, Sensitive species •Fire Perimeters & History (Standards – USFS & NIFC) •Fire Occurrence/Ignitions – Point of Origin (Standards – USFS, NIFC, CAL FIRE) •Fire Management Units (FMU) (Standards – USFS & NIFC) •Fire Base Stations •Direct Protection Areas (DPA) – All federal agency protection areas •Aviation Hazards (Standards – USFS & NIFC) •Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) (Standards – USFS & NIFC) •Fire Engine Water Sources (Standards – USFS & NIFC) •Burned Area Emergency Response/Rehabilitation •Fire Ecology / Fire Severity Atlas / RAVG/Burn Severity •Landscape data & Fuels – Strategic Decision Support •Emergency response could use many other datasets….

GISS Hard Drive

• Version 3 update as of September. • Federal Teams & CAL FIRE first priority • Final size 1.26 TB • Annual updates completed in April • Return end of May • Intended for Federal, State, Local, & non-profits

GISS Hard Drives – How do I find the data I need:

GISS Hard Drives – How do I find the data I need:

GISS Hard Drives – How do I find the data I need:

GISS Hard Drive – Inventory (includes web services!)

Tour of Inventory spreadsheet:

Open Inventory XLS and search (CTRL+F) for:

•Fire Retardant Avoidance

•Survey or PLSS or TRS

•Roads

•Topos

•Streams

•Etc….

Converting USGS GeoPDFs to GeoTIFFs:

• Old USGS quads are 60+ years old • New USGS quads ArcMap can’t open without specialized extension • Goal: Convert all GeoPDFs to GeoTiffs for use on All Hazards • Global Mapper – script to remove forest tint, clip to quad boundary,

no imagery, no hillshade.

California, Nevada and Oregon reprocessed in 2015

Status USGS GeoPDFs to GeoTIFFs:

Converting USGS GeoPDFs to GeoTIFFs: Available NOW – USGS Hazards Data Distribution System (HDDS) - http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/ How to tip sheet available! Reprocessed data not loaded yet.

Mobile Technology Activities

• Supporting GPS devices – Garmin, Trimble, etc.

• IOS and Android mobile devices – multiple

apps being used – Avenza (PDFMaps), ForeFlight, iGIS, Gaia, etc – supporting as needed

• QR code enabling – all links going to new NIFC FTP server

• AGOL – working with Teams & Management as they pick this up and the lab has staff to support.

Aviation Hazards Maps – all available on line in 2015 – THANK-YOU Forest GIS:

Web, iOS, & Android usable – tip sheet(s) available:

Aviation Hazards

• New product for 2015:

Fire Retardant Avoidance

• New product for 2015:

NIFC Enterprise Geospatial Portal (EGP) – Dashboard & Situation Analyst:

HTML 5 (mobile devices)

DEMO – PDFMaps, EGP, & R5 FAM Web Map App

OR when DEMO’s fail….

QUESTIONS

Contact for more: lpeltzlewis@fs.fed.us

Twitter: @lapeltz

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