SpotFires, Custom Tools for Fire Protection
ABSTRACT SpotFires is a collection of tools designed to assist the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) in the management of information needed to support wild-land fire fighting efforts at ODF. The application is based on ODF Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data. The primary function of SpotFires is to locate areas, return appropriate geographic information for dispatch, display a map at an appropriate scale, and then allow the user to digitize an incident location and attribute the point with appropriate information. The shape files are then used in SpotFires or other GIS packages to view incident locations or used by the fire management staff for strategic or tactical operations.
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