Fire History

ISO-19139 Metadata

Metadata Information

Metadata language: eng
Metadata character set: utf8
Last update: 2020-06-15
Metadata maintenance:
Update frequency: asNeeded
Metadata contact:
Role: custodian
Organization's name: Wildland Fire Management - Government of Yukon
Contact information:
Address:
e-mail address: CS-PS-WFM-FIRE-MAPPING@gov.yk.ca
Scope of the data described by the metadata: dataset
Scope name: dataset
Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007
Metadata identifier: 1607354829524r5325208373610868

Data Identification Information

Resource citation:
Title: Fire History
Date:
Reference date - publication: 2014-01-01
Presentation format: mapDigital
Cited responsible party:
Role: originator
Organization's name: Wildland Fire Management - Government of Yukon
Contact information:
Address:
e-mail address: cs-ps-wfm-fire-mapping@gov.yk.ca
Themes or categories of the resource: boundaries
Descriptive keywords:
Place keywords:
Keywords: Canada, Yukon, Y.T., Yukon Territory
Descriptive keywords:
Theme keywords:
Keywords: boundaries
Keyword thesaurus:
Title: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Date:
Descriptive keywords:
Theme keywords:
Keywords: Fire, forest fire, polygon, Fire History, fire ignition
Descriptive keywords:
Keyword type not provided
Keywords: Downloadable Data
Keyword thesaurus:
Citation reference: 723f6998-058e-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66
Abstract: This is a landscape level GIS coverage of large fires within the Yukon, spanning a period from 1946 to present. Original polygon size was limited to 200 hectares, when the first edition of this dataset was completed in 1997. Smaller fires are now being included, especially near communities. It is important to note that in most instances, fire perimeters only were mapped. This means that unburned areas within the perimeter are not accounted for, either in an ecological context or in annual area burned summaries. More recent fires mapped, with the aid of satellite technology may include large unburned patches.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.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
Purpose: To show aerial distribution and location of fire perimeters in Yukon.
Dataset language:eng
Dataset character set: utf8
Status: completed
Resource maintenance:
Update frequency: asNeeded
Resource constraints:
General constraints:
Limitations of use: Open Government Licence - Yukon (https://open.yukon.ca/data/open-government-licence-yukon)
Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Limitations of use: 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.
Other constraints: All persons may use this database.
Spatial representation type: vector
Processing environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595
Resource extent:
Extent description: publication date
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
1946-01-012011-10-11
Resource extent:
Geographic element:
Bounding rectangle:
West longitude: -143.495527
East longitude: -120.610245
North latitude: 68.895303
South latitude: 59.443998
Resource extent:
Geographic element:
Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -143.495527
East longitude: -120.610245
North latitude: 68.895303
South latitude: 59.443998
Supplemental information: Version 2010.01
Credits: Government of Yukon
Resource point of contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Organization's name: Wildland Fire Management - Government of Yukon
Contact information:
Address:
e-mail address: CS-PS-WFM-FIRE-MAPPING@gov.yk.ca

Spatial Representation

Vector Data

Level of topology for this dataset: geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type: composite
Object count: 1824

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier:
Value: 3578
Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.13(9.3.0.0)

Data Quality

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset
Resource lineage:
Lineage statement: This product is the result of a joint effort between the Government of Yukon and Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton. Most fire perimeters to 1997 were digitized by the Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie from maps provided to them from the Federal Government (DIAND). Landsat 80m MSS transparencies were also instrumental in mapping large fires. Perimeters since that time have been digitized in-house. Many older perimeters have been revised in-house as described in the above notes.
Data quality report:
Conceptual consistency:
Measure produced by the test: 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.
Data quality result:
Data quality report:
Quantitative attribute accuracy:
Measure produced by the test: 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.
Data quality result:

Distribution Information

Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Role: distributor
Organization's name: Geomatics Yukon – Government of Yukon
Contact information:
Address:
e-mail address: geomatics.help@gov.yk.ca
Distribution format:
Format name: Feature Class
Format version:
Transfer options:
Online distribution information:
Online location: https://yukon.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f9588f95c62e4bf69ef02145d91c92ab
Transfer options:
Online distribution information:
Online location: https://map-data.service.yukon.ca/GeoYukon/Emergency_Management/Fire_History/