Information Links

National Wildfire Coordinating Group: www.nwcg.gov

Federal Geographic Data Committee Framework information: http://www.fgdc.gov/framework/overview.html

Homeland security Information: http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/homeland.html

USGS GIS information: http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html  

GIS resources on the net: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html

Forest Service Core Data Dictionary (only available to FS LAN users). Others should request the dictionary be sent to them via email by sending a note to jfrost@fs.fed.us or jbutterfield@fs.fed.us .

Maps & Data Links

National Atlas: http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp

Wild Fire Assessment System: http://www.fs.fed.us/land/wfas/

Montana Data : http://nris.state.mt.us/fire/

Federal Sources for Data: http://home.earthlink.net/~rpminfonet/spatial.html

Guide to GIS Reources on the net (Berkeley): http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GIS/gisnet.html

GIS Data Search (Rice University): http://www.rice.edu/fondren/gdc/datasearch.html

Guide to mostly free data: http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/

Tools Links:

ESRI Arc Scripts: http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/scripts.cfm

Translation of Degrees Minutes and Seconds to Decimal Degrees http://www.utexas.edu/research/beg/GIS/tools/DMS_DD.htm

Fam WEB: http://famweb.nwcg.gov/

Fire Applications Support:  http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/planning/nist/

Other Links

Government & University