Forest Fires in Canada: 20 July 1999
20 July 1999
Fig.1. Hotspot overview, 19 July 1999
(Source: FireM3)
The above mentioned fire situation map can be directly accessed at the Fire Monitoring, Mapping, and Modelling (FireM3) Project website (the FireM3 project is a collaboration of the Canadian Forest Service and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing). Through the Map Link you can access daily hotspot images. An Internet Map Server, which is like a simple GIS running on the host computer, allows you to zoom in on any fire or other area of interest and view the image and map data at full (1km) resolution. You can also click on any fire and get information about that fire.
Vegetation fires were detected by OSEI with the NOAA-15 POES AVHRR HRPT satellite on 19 July 1999.
Fig.1. The image shows heat signatures from areas of fire burning in the Northwest Territories. Also captured in this image is a burn scar or smoldering ground in eastern Alaska from an area of fire that was actively burning last week.
(source: http://www.osei.noaa.gov/).
Saskatchewan Daily Forest Fire Situation Report (10:00 AM Monday, 19 July 1999):
There are 31 forest fires burning in the province today.
3 fires have been extinguished in the past 24 hours.
6 new fires have been reported.
Total number of fires to date this year is 409.
Total to date last year was 938, FIVE year average is 475.
The whole report and further information can be accessed at the fire management website of Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management (SERM).
The Canadian Daily Fire Situation Report shows further detailed information regarding the fire situation in Canada, which, however, will not be mentioned here in detail. We refer to the corresponding home page.
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, provides a National Forest Fire Situation Report which is updated every Friday. The report contains an overview of ongoing fires, special descripttion of problem fires, Interagency Resource Mobilization, Synopsis and Prognosis, and the following regularly updated graphs:
- Number of Fires by province
- Area Burned by province
- Weekly Fire Occurrence
- Weekly Area Burned
- Seasonal Fire Occurrence
- Seasonal Area Burned
- Interagency Resource Mobilization
- Number of Agencies Mobilized
- Weekly Satellite Hot-Spots
- Seasonal Satellite Hot-Spots
Regular updates on the currently ongoing International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment in the Northwest Territories (the experimental site is located 40 km northeast of Fort Providence 61.6° N, 117.2° W) is given in: http://www.nofc.forestry.ca/fire/fmn/nwt/
