Western Canadian Drought Monitoring

Author: Troy E Riche
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

603-1800 Hamilton Street
Regina, S4P 4L2
Saskatchewan, Canada

Phone: 306-780-7101
Fax: 306-780-5018
richet@em.agr.ca

PFRA has developed a drought monitoring update routine in which 22 district offices input dugout levels and pasture conditions from across western Canada. This custom routine updates a centralized database across the WAN. The collected data is then mapped and posted to the PFRA Drought Monitoring Internet Web site. This routine provides an application-specific procedure that allows GIS users with minimal ArcView GIS experience to update a database.