FirePack

An ArcView 3.2 Extension for perimeter mapping

An ArcGIS Extension for perimeter mapping

An ArcPad Extension for perimeter mapping

For information on these and other National Park Service GIS tools see the NPS GIS applications Page at:

http://www.nps.gov/gis/applications/new_apps.html

This extension includes the Fire Perimeter Attributes tool that was demoed at the last NWCG - GTG meeting in Boise
and an option to export a fire perimeter into the attribute format requested by Geomac.

The extension also contains a few additional functions commonly used on fire: Add perimeters/miles to attributes, Convert point theme to polygon/polyline and Import PLUGR GPS data. Firepak was written by Greg Daniels of the NPS Alaska Support Office GIS team.

The fire attributing function works basically the same way it did in Boise: Make the fire perimeter the active theme and select the feature that you want to add attributes to. Then either click on the fire symbol in the GUI or go to the Firepak menu and select 'Fire Perimeter Attributes.'Firepak adds the following attributes to a shapefile: Unit ID, Fire name, Fire number, Date of collection, Time of collection, Method of collection (GPS or digitized), Source (type of GPS or map source if digitized), Travelmethod, Differential Correction, Mapscale (if digitized), Contact name, Contact phone number, Contact email, Projection, Units, Datum, Comments, Acres, and Perimeter length in miles.

Selecting the 'Export to Geomac' option converts the above attributes to the format specified in the 2001 Geomac Fire Perimeter Data Elements paper. A "geomaced" shapefile will have the following attributes: Event_name, C_date, C_time, Poc_name, Poc_phone, Poc_email, C_method, E_number, Event_type, Poc_cphone, Poc_ephone. The Geomac 'Collection Method' attribute, C_method, is a concatenation of the applicable method attributes in the original fire perimeter. c_method = Method of collection (GPS or digitized) + Source (type of GPS or map source if digitized) +
Travel method (if GPS) + Differential Correction (if GPS) + Mapscale (if digitized).

The extension could provide one means of easily incorporating common data standards into incident level fire GIS.

Future plans for Firepak include support for ArcGIS 8.1, user documentation and additional functionality. Comments and critiques are appreciated.