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Wildland Fire Management - Government of Yukon
CS-PS-WFM-FIRE-MAPPING@gov.yk.ca
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2020-12-04
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
2007
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Fire Ignition Locations
CSW_FIRE.FIRE_IGNITION_PT
2020-05-26
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Wildland Fire Management - Government of Yukon
CS-PS-WFM-FIRE-MAPPING@gov.yk.ca
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This is point GIS coverage consisting of either fire ignition locations or centroids of fire polygons where the exact location of fire ignition were unknown for fires within the Yukon, spanning a period from 1946 to present. Although the temporal scale of the coverage goes back to late 1940's, Yukon-wide fire detection capability was not fully developed until the 1960's. In addition to this, access to regular aerial mapping was not readily available until that same time period. As a result many fires in the 40's and 50's were simply not recorded or poorly mapped, particularly in the north. For that reason, care must be taken when drawing conclusions from these data as it relates to the early years. Starting 2020 on the data was automatically updated using iFMS.Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon. Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data collection.For more information: geomatics.help@gov.yk.ca
To show aerial distribution and location of fire ignition locations in the Yukon Territory.
Government of Yukon
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Wildland Fire Management - Government of Yukon
CS-PS-WFM-FIRE-MAPPING@gov.yk.ca
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Yukon
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Fire History
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fire ignition
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ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Downloadable Data
Open Government Licence - Yukon (https://open.yukon.ca/data/open-government-licence-yukon)
All agencies or parties that obtain and use this data set do so at their own risk. All products derived from this data set are the sole responsibility of the agency or party that created it.
All persons may use this database.
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1946-01-01
2011-10-11
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Geomatics Yukon – Government of Yukon
geomatics.help@gov.yk.ca
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https://yukon.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=3c30dd2c61644302adde38a3f5750d2c
https://map-data.service.yukon.ca/GeoYukon/Emergency_Management/Fire_Ignition_Locations/
dataset
Government of Yukon, Community Services, Protective Services Branch, Wildland Fire Management (henceforth referred to as WFM) has created and compiled these data from various sources and formats to prepare the point and polygon data in this database. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy, precision and timeliness of data created, WFM assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Furthermore any person who relies on said information for any purpose whatsoever does so with recognition of the data limitations and solely at his or her own risk. WFM is not responsible for claims by a third party. The data are for use at landscape level scales and is dependant upon temporal and data source attributes, generally data created from satellite imagery or GPS can be used at scales of 1:50000 or smaller whereas data created from sketch maps may be only suitable for use at scales of 1:250000 or smaller. The data may have a number of errors which may contain but are not limited to the following: >Spatial Errors >Registration Errors >Attribute Errors >Currency Errors >Completeness Errors >Projection Distortion.
Fires not previously mapped are regularly detected from satellite imagery. Whether these are existing fires in our reports that did not get mapped or entirely new fires that escaped detection is difficult to determine. Till these are sorted out, the previously unrecorded fires are given an ID starting with 99, followed with an estimated decade, determined from the colour of the firescar in relation to known burn years. At present we are going back through the old fire reports to correct locations and reclassify ignition data. As a result, a number of smaller fires were added from the 1948-1956 era from hardcopy maps found in these reports. These will be updated on an ongoing basis in chronological order, but will take some time. The end result will be additional fires in the 50 to 200 ha range that have not been included to this point. Fire ID's prior to 1960 does not include the District Code as all fires to that date were numbered on a Yukon-wide basis. Unburned polygons, where mapped have been extracted from the burned polygons and the table.
This is point GIS coverage consisting of either fire ignition locations or centroids of fire polygons where the exact location of fire ignition were unknown for fires within the Yukon, spanning a period from 1946 to present. Although the temporal scale of the coverage goes back to late 1940's, Yukon-wide fire detection capability was not fully developed until the 1960's. In addition to this, access to regular aerial mapping was not readily available until that same time period. As a result many fires in the 40's and 50's were simply not recorded or poorly mapped, particularly in the north. For that reason, care must be taken when drawing conclusions from these data as it relates to the early years. Starting 2020 on the data was automatically updated using iFMS.
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