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Web-based Alberta Wildfire System
This project will develop a web-based Alberta wildfire system. The new system will help users collect and share required wildfire information online and will provide the tools for business partners to conduct activities in relation to wildfire suppression and prevention on a temporal and spatial scale.
Wildfires can devastate communities, destroy wildlife habitats, disrupt tourism and commerce, and take human life. Preventing wildfires-and managing them effectively when they do strike-are important goals.
This project will contribute to achieving those objectives. The Alberta Wildfire System will enable officials to better communicate fire bans and forest closures, spot wildfires early, report dangerous materials in wildfire-affected areas, coordinate fire-fighting efforts more effectively, and better prevent wildfires.
The new system will provide a web-map interface that end users can employ to query and view wildfire protection information. This information includes wildfire threat assessments, resource allocations, and locations of values at risk. The system will also enable users to check the status of existing wildfires or report new wildfires.
Potential users comprise municipalities, national parks staff, fire-response crews, wildfire agency personnel, the public, and employees of forestry, oil and gas, and railway companies.
The Alberta Wildfire System will also incorporate a wide variety of data from the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). This includes information pertaining to road and rail networks, drainage boundaries, elevations, wetlands, and power networks.
Primary Partner:
Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
Edmonton,
Alberta;
Partners:
MRF Geosystems Corporation
Albian Sands Energy Inc.
ATCO Electric Ltd.
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
Encana Coporation
Fortis Alberta Inc.
Imperial Oil Ltd.
Exxon Mobil Corp.
Ram Exploration Inc.
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 33.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: May 1st, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: March 31st, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Alberta;