South Sumatra

Spatial Information System for Forest and Land Fire.

New software for hotspot and forest fire monitoring and processing was developed to facilitate Forest Information System (FIS) operators in their regular tasks. The software is very easy, simple but robust for fire monitoring and early warning system. The software called SISKe - Spatial Information System for Forest and Land Fire, a software developed by the South Sumatara Forest Fire Management Project (SSFFMP) in 2006-2007, and freely available not only for stakeholders in South Sumatra but also at national level.

Distinction with other custom software related to forest fire with Bahasa Indonesia as main language interface, SISKe has several unique features:

Weather data management
Managing weather (Rainfall, Air temperature, Relative humidity, Wind speed and direction) data from BMKG, Manggala Agni and plantation company’s weather station. Equipped with simple query and statistics information, and export feature to Microsoft Excel.
Forest fire early warning system
Connected with weather data management module, easily to get fire hazard level in point location.
- Fire Weather Index
- Keetch-Byram Drought Index
Forest fire monitoring and analysis
- Hotspot frequency analysis
  Intersect feature with admin boundary or land cover to get hotspot summary by administrative or land cover type, and hotspot monitoring by day, month or custom periods.
- Fire-prone areas analysis - weighted overlay
  Inspired from ESRI’s weighted overlay, custom code is written to facilitate user to be able perform weighted overlay analysis using existing data in the SISKe database. And also using their own datasets, through translating process using tools embedded in SISKe.
- Fire-prone areas analysis - FDRS
  Connected with weather data management module, and awesome feature on IDW interpolation module, user are able to calculate Fire Weather Index for the whole areas.
Layout and printing
Super simple layout and print preview module.