1. GOFC-Fire S.E. Asia Regional Workshop Wrap-Up Session January 24, 2003 Review of online fire information system developments and plans (Elvidge) Demo of FDRS online (Lee) Other presentations? 2003 Activity Plan (All)

2. Current Situation Multiple data / product providers. Large numbers of interested parties. Value added products, such as FDRS and smoke transport predictions require combination of multiple data sources and operation of models. The level of effort required to generate all the data / products of interest and provide open easy-to-use access is cost prohibitive for any one country or agency.

3. On-Line Fire Information Systems Can provide interactive access to data. Can generate overlay displays of fires with user selected background maps or images. Can provide interactive links to models, such as HYSPLIT.

4. On-Line Fire Information Systems Once a product suite is standardized, daily reports can be automatically generated in html or pdf format. These would be more valuable to the operational users than the interactive system. For example a daily report containing maps and images could be generated for Sumatra. This could be automatically delivered to a subscription list and could also be selected from a daily report list posted at a web site. ASEAN (region) Indonesia (country) Sumatra (island) Riau (province) Malaysia Sabah Sarawak Thailand

5. What do we mean by SHARED? Data / products drawn from multiple providers. There may be more than one service provider (for different geographical regions, languages, or user communities). Share scripts, applets, API’s, models.

6. Expressions of Interest NOAA-PARTS (U.S. contribution to monitoring component of ASEAN RHAP) Canadian Forest Service – S.E Asia FDRS project MAFFIN-ANDES Thai MONRE Intergrated Forest Fire Management Project, Samarinda, East Kalimantan Sentinal Australia

7. Known Plans For S.E. Asia Fire Information Systems MAFFIN plans to continue improvements to Thailand & Indonesia active fire and fire risk information system. PARTS (NGDC) is building a prototype intended for installation at the ASMC. MONRE (Suwit) plans to build one for Thailand, but cannot start work until additional infrastructure is installed. Would provide service in Thai and English languages. MACRES is building fire information system for Malaysia. BPPT / BMG has built fire information system for Indonesia. CSIRO has built the Sentinal fire information system.

8. MAFFIN-ANDES Plans to use NASDA Web Map Server (Digital Asia) to provide interactive display and access for: Near real time fire detections from AVHRR, OLS, MODIS, GLI and MTSAT 1-R. Fire risk maps derived from vegetation index time series (AVHRR, MODIS and GLI) and thermal band surface temperatures. Emphasis on supporting fire management activities.

9. NOAA-PARTS NOAA CIMSS (Elaine Prins) will provide ftp access to near real time fire detection data from GOES-9, starting as early as May, 2003. NGDC is building an ArcIMS based fire information system prototype, capable of predicting smoke transport based on active fire detections (HYSPLIT model). The plan is to have this installed at ASMC later this year. NGDC willing to provide ArcIMS scripts to others.

10. CFS - S.E. Asia FDRS Project Has built a Fire Danger Rating System and adapted / calibrated it to work in Indonesia and Malaysia. Has offered to set up daily FDRS for ASEAN region to address transboundary haze problem. Has plan to work with Thailand agencies to calibrate the FDRS for use in the Thailand region.

11. PARTS Implementation Concept For ASMC NOAA-CIMSS GOES-9 Fire Data Madison, Wisconsin Regional Met. Station Data Models NWP Grids NOAA-NGDC DMSP-OLS Data ASEAN FDRS Generation of fire hot spots from AVHRR, MODIS, and OLS. Incorporate GOES-9 fire data. Direct Readout Data NOAA-AVHRR NASA-MODIS Advance Prediction of Smoke Source Areas 24-72 hour Prediction of Smoke Arrival HYSPLITHYSPLIT ArcIMS Regional/ National/ Island / Province Reports Scientific Users Operational Users Emphasis on Transboundary Smoke Prediction

12. These Activities Contribute to Fulfilling the Monitoring Group Recommendations From The 2002 World Land and Forest Fire Hazards Conference i) To operate a comprehensive ASEAN early warning system which comprised of prediction and detection of fire and haze using remote sensing and ground monitoring technologies and mechanisms; ii) To develop Fire Danger Rating System/ Fire Hazard Map/ Fire risk map/ Fuel mapping to enhance the identification of fire prone areas to compliment the above effort; iii) To establish a mechanism for a free flow of user friendly, timely, high quality, accurate and affordable information between providers and end users, in order to ensure continuous improvement of the monitoring system;

13. 2003 Activities Move of GOES-9 to Asia Pacific (NOAA April, 2003) NOAA CIMMS GOES-9 fire data access to region (May, 2003) NASDA-MAFF-ANDES Web Mapping Service (March, 2003) CFS & NOAA discussion on FDRS with ASMC (April, 2003) NGDC completion of PARTS demo (June, 2003) Complete 2002 fire cal/val study (Thailand) with regional workshop (December, 2003) Develop collaboration with Digital Asia Network (November, 2003) Update documentation and links at GFMC (June, 2003) Summarize results of workshop for publication in GFMC Forest Fire News (Elvidge February, 2003)