Abstract

Archaeological GIS Data in Wildland Fire Situations
Track: Archaeology
Author(s): Dan Martin

Archaeological GIS for land and resource management among land managing agencies is established as an essential technology. Agency archeologists can open ArcMap, choose Add Data>Add ArcGIS Server or ArcIMS Server with other datasets to work. Site and Areas Inventoried locations and tabular data are available. Using Mobile GIS, archaeologists are able to go afield with existing data on their handheld, edit extant data or collect new data that becomes part of the record without need for data re-manipulation so that errors are reduced. Such systems are operational many places. Sources of such data are diverse. Exception to access is in some of the Wildland Fire situations where such capabilities would often save sites, lives and property. Discussed are Fire senarios, such as the Incidence Command during a fire and rehab situations, etc. with discussion of what the challenges are to realize capabilities through out the Fire system.

Dan Martin
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