GIS Forest Fire.

This software used to identify fire dangerous level in Sumatra - Indonesia, the hazard level is determined using the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, which is generated through analysis of remote sensing data.

Forest fire is one of main types of hazard in Indonesia. This study was aimed to develop an application system to determine the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System (FWI) from various combination of remote sensing satellite data based on numerical and spatial model. This application is expected to provide the forest fire danger rating information for a certain area based on numerical-spatial FWI value in a certain time. FWI was calculated from air temperature (Ta), relative humidity (RH), wind speed (u) dan rainfall (Ra). These were derived from satellite images (remote sensing data). Three main processes were involved, which were development and designing a program to prepare the input for the software, algorithm and script development of the software, and development of the software for forest fire early warning system. The designed program stimulated weather condition based on surface temperature data (Ts) that was extracted from AVHRR/NOAA (Advance Very High Resolution Radiometer/National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) to derive Ta and RH. Wind data that was generated using thermal wind equation which relates vertical shear of the geostrophic wind to horizontal temperature gradient and uses central difference of grid notation from the first derivative of temperature height, then corrected using extracted wind data from TXLAPS (Tropical eXtended Area Prediction System). Rainfall data that was extracted from QMORPH (CPC MORPHing Technique).

GIS Forest Fire is part of my final research and as one of the requirements to get bachelor of science degree at Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Bogor Agricultural University.

Reference: https://repository.ipb.ac.id/handle/123456789/47915

Tools: ArcView GIS 3.3, ErMapper 6.4, Surfer 6, MapObject 2.2, Visual Basic 6, CorelDRAW 12

Advisor: Idung Risdiyanto, and Rokhis Khomarudin

Year: 2006

Credit: Hendro Poerwandito (GISForestFire welcome-screen and CD cover creator)