Welcome

Welcome to our VIIRS Polygon service!

Not a public service

This service is not a public service. You must be authorized to use this service. It is provided as is, with no warranty or guarantee of any kind. It is provided for the use of Canadian Fire Modellers working with/for CIFFC partners. If that describes you, you are authorized; if this does not describe you, you are not authorized. If you are not authorized, you must leave this site now and do not access it. If you have been given permission to use this service, by "Franco Nogarin" please proceed.

Experimental

This service is experimental. It is not a production service. It is provided as is, complete with bugs and with no warranty or guarantee of any kind. Again, It has active bugs! USE THIS SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK. If use of this service maims your rabbit, kills your dog or burns down your house, That is on you, you have been warned.

This services updates its datasets every 2 hours

This service is designed to provide VIIRS polygons for DIP fires in Canada.

How it works

This service uses the following workflow

  1. Get the latest DIP fire data from the CIFFC
  2. Get the latest VIIRS data from the NASA
  3. Starting from the DIP Point working outward, build a dataset of applicable VIIRS
  4. generate an estimated fire boundry (VIIRS Poly)
  5. extract only the recent hotspots buffered to 375 for the fire that intersect the VIIRS Poly(Active perimeter parts)
  6. Create an ignition line from active spots on the permiter
  7. Store a dataset for each fire
  8. update the datasets every 2 hours from fresh data.
NOTE: If there is no VIIRS hotspots near a fire, there will be a minimal or no dataset available.

What you can do: