7 October 1999
Fig.1. Hotspot overview, 6 October 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.
The last Canadian Daily Fire Situation Report of the 1999 season reported on 15 September 1999:
| FIRES YEAR-TO-DATE |
HECTARES YEAR-TO-DATE |
| 7,200 | 1,678,386 |
For further detailed information 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/