Difference between revisions of "Fire Data Sources"

Revision as of 04:48, 5 September 2016

Many sources of weather, terrain, and fuel data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites, many in the form of files viewable in Google Earth. Fire ignition tim/location data and imagery of fire extent at later times for specific incidents is still generally in the form of custom datasets where research or suppression teams were available to collect it.

Fuel Maps

LandFire http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov

10-hr Dead Fuel Moisture

Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/

Live Fuel Moisture

http://wfas.net based on NVDI data

Fire Ignition Time and Location Data

Custom

Fire Perimeters

Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination (GEOMAC) http://www.geomac.gov/
Incident Information System http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

Fire Detection

Firemapper http://firemapper.sc.egov.usda.gov/activefiremaps.php
Latest MODIS from Forest Service http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data/kml/conus_latest_AFM_bundle.kml
Modis raw data ftp://152.61.133.5/MOLT/MOD14.005 Tera, ftp://152.61.133.5/MOLA/MOD14.005 Aqua satelite

Fire Location and Intensity Data

Satellite fire detection from FireMapper by the NASA Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and VIIRS
VIIRS products

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 Many sources of weather, terrain, and fuel data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites, many in the form of files viewable in Google Earth. Fire ignition tim/location data and imagery of fire extent at later times for specific incidents is still generally in the form of custom datasets where research or suppression teams were available to collect it.
-==Surface weather data==
-* The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) http://madis.noaa.gov/   compiles surface weather data from many networks (http://madis.noaa.gov/network_info.html).
-* Mesowest  http://mesowest.utah.edu/index.html Also supports layers with fire info.
-* Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data    http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/
-* METAR, the international standard code format for hourly surface weather observations, data are available at  http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml
-* NOAA National Climate Data Center land based data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/land.html
-==Vertical profiles of atmospheric properties==
-* Atmospheric soundings  http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
-* Atmospheric profiler data  http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/profiler/  (not working currently)
-* NOAA National Climate Data Center Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/igra/index.php
-==3D Weather Data==
-* The NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/
-* NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction model products   ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/
-===NARR===
-====Description====
-* North American Regional Reanalysis http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.narr.html
-** 3h, 32km resolution 1979 to now about 18 month delay
-** [http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/narr/warning.html Converted from GRIB to NetCDF4 (HDF5) as of 2016/02/11]
-====Data access====
-* http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/narr
-* ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR
 ==Fuel Maps==