Welcome to the National Park Service ArcView GIS Mapping and Analysis for Fire Specialists On-Line Course
If you have questions about a particular function, you should contact your park's GIS coordinator / specialist or Regional GIS coordinator.
In order to work through this course you will need to have ArcView GIS 3.1 or a later version already installed on your computer. You will also need an "decompress file utility" installed on your computer in order to decompress the data files needed to complete the exercises.
1. Exercise 1: Creating Prescribed Burn Area Information For Fire Effects Monitors
2. Exercise 2: Working with Composite Burn Index and Normalized Burn Ratio Data
3. Exercise 3: Woodland Home Forest Fire Hazard Rating and Wildland Urban Interface
4. Exercise 4: Health Assessment of Maritime Spruce-Fir Forest Populations
5. Exercise 5: Creating Input Layers for FARSITE Using Spatial Analyst
You may download all the training data here or download the data as you need it. Links to download individual data sets are found throughout the web pages.
Download all the assignment data (246 MB). Be sure to preserve the directory structure!