2015 Pre-Season Webinar for IRINsThursday, May 140900 AKDT1000 PDT1100 MDT1200 CDT1300 EDT

Teleconference:Dial: 1-888-844-9904Passcode: 1470935#

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Cold Brook Fire4/14/2015 2022 hrs MDT

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2014 NIROPS Requests1,267 total requests with 1,116 filled

2014 acres burned was 36% of 2012

2014 missions flown was 81% of 2012

11% UTF rate (3% for non-Weather)

http://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/outlooks/outlooks.htm

Currency and Trainees (Hope Spriggs)

Currency requirements – time limit5 years from date of last assignment

Trainees – remote trainee assignments, how many assignments

NWCG (not FS specific) TaskbookTaskbook good for 3 years from date of first assignment

http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/taskbook/planning/planning.htm

IRIN is back in the 310-1 and FSFAQGPMS 310-1:  http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/docs/docs.htm

FSFAQG:  http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/publications/index.html#fsfaqg

RT-130 Annual Fire Refresher – is it required or not?

Online Scanner Order Page (Jan Johnson)

2015 UpdatesIRIN assigned to incident shown in Current Orders

Think icon for “Submit as New Request” and “Update Request”

User Comments box cleared each time a new order is created

Admin Comments box limited to admin access accounts

Scan box coordinates reminder

IRIN Assigned to IncidentAssigned IRIN now shows in Current Orders

Submitting and Updating IR Orders: The “Think” Icon

Added a visual indicator that the server is actually processing the request

User and Admin Comments Boxes: Old information wasn’t being updated or removed

New information appended to old is being missed

Input only from accounts with admin access.

Cleared when a new order is created, the same as the A# box.

User and Admin Comments Boxes:

Cleared when a new order is created, the same as the A# box.

Reminders From 2014“Forgot Username/Password” link

“Sign up for an account” link Auto email to GACC IR Liaison

“NIROPS Account Accepted” with user contact info

Auto notification if order is UTFNeed valid email for incident

Forest Service email usersCheck your “Junk E-Mail” folder

Time lag in FS email

Checking Scan Boxes

• Generate a PDF of your order from the Current Orders to check scan box coordinates and other information

• Use the NIROPS CDE KML to check scan box size and location

Create New Orders

To create the next night’s order:

Click on “create new order” under Options

Edit order

Click on “Submit as New”

Retrieving Archived Orders

If you need to retrieve and submit an archived order as a new order

Go to “Current Orders”

Click on “Show Archived”

Find your old order

Click “create new order”

Edit order

Click on “Submit as New Request”

Final (?) ItemsIf you run into an Online Ordering issue

Send me a detailed email, with a screen grab of the error if you can, OR,

Call me, however,

Support is NOT 24/7

Updates were pushed to the server in mid-AprilThere will be some glitches, so as always, be patient

Geo-PDFs (Melinda McGann)iPhone, iPad, and Android compatible IR maps with Avenza App (www.pdf-maps.com)

Default setting in ArcGIS:

File Export Map Advanced tab [√] Export Map Georeference Information

Assures standard naming convention

Consistent products

Easy, no more copy/paste or New Shapefile

Create IR Feature Classes Tool

Create IR Feature Classes ToolDownload/Save

In ArcMap, Open ArcToolbox

Right click, Add Toolbox

Double-click on “Create IR Feature Classes

Thank you, Jeremy Hobson!

Tool Help will guide you…

YYYYMMDD of delivery

YYYYMMDD of flight at the incident

HHMM of flight at the incident

No spaces, use caps or _ for names

Empty if not specified

Data Sources (Jim Grace)

Current sources for local copies of USGS TopoNRCS Data Gateway

USGS topo, Lidar hillshade, interactive map much like RDDS https://gdg.sc.egov.usda.gov/GDGOrder.aspx

NIFC FTP site - New Site to be up on June 1st Base_info folder is being migrated to new site, contains

USGS topos under the Statewide_GIS_Data folder

USGS Rapid Data Delivery System (RDDS) Will be shut down in July A waiver to run the whole 2015 fire season has been

submitted

Incident GISS

Data SourcesSeveral Map Services available

In ArcGIS under Add DataAdd Basemap Add from ArcGIS Online

Halo Effect (Tom Mellin)

Due to balancing improved detection of smaller heat sources with reduction of bloom/system saturation

Rim Fire – August 23, 2013 - grew by 50,000+ acres

Halo Effect

Recognize halo effect pixels by location, spatial arrangement

Utilize color .tif to distinguish halo pixels from valid heat sources

Remember that halo pixels will be included in Raw Heat Data and should not be mapped

Changes to NIFC FTP SiteFTP.NIFC.GOV will be moving to a new server to address security concerns on June 1st

New site will have the same address i.e. ftp://ftp.nifc.gov/

Old username/passwords will no longer work

All users will need NAP accounts for upload access

NESS* Application Portal (NAP) Account: FTP Access

If you have a ROSS Account, you have a NAP account and password.

If you don’t, request NAP access immediately:Request a NAP User Account

After June 1st, you will need a NAP account for IRIN work.

*NESS = National Enterprise Support Service

NIFC FTP Site Change Management Document

Read the background info and instructions thoroughly

https://sites.google.com/a/firenet.gov/nifc-ftp-site-change-management/

Link is embedded in the

IRIN pre-season webinar

meeting announcement

2 Step ProcessStep 1- Request Application Access to F&AM FTP

Enter Supervisor’s info here

2 Step ProcessStep 2- Send me an email with your NAP user ID (don’t send your password!)

I will send an email to the helpdesk to grant you access to the IRIN user group

IRIN user group includes read/write access to the 2015_Fires folder in NIROPS as well as write access to Incident_Specific_Data folders for all GACCs

It may take a week or more initially to grant access

You should get a notification email (?)

Starting June 1st …….Use your NAP user ID and password for access to NIFC FTP site

Nirops and ISDMaster logins will no longer work

Rules regarding ROSS/NAP passwords applyRenew password every 60 days

After 90 days account is disabled

ROSS helpdesk is 866-224-7677

Use of FTP client will be required for uploading and accessing restricted folders

WinSCP, FileZilla, SmartFTP, and many others

Get ReadyMake sure you are listed correctly as an IRIN or IRIN(t) in IQCS, ROSS, and on your red card

Maintain contact with your GACC IR liaison – contact info, availability (nationwide vs. GACC, local)

Make sure you have all necessary passwordsTo get into scanner form and IRIN Area on website

For accessing Phoenix imagery in NIROPS folder on ftp site

For posting IR products to Incident Specific Data folder on ftp site

Base data, AFF, etc.

NAP user account with IRIN group

Track fire activity through activefiremaps.fs.fed.us

Track IR activity through the scanner order page

Get ReadyBe prepared

Refresher materials at ftp://ftp.nifc.gov/NIROPS/Refresher

Local base data, local license for ArcGIS (if possible)

Good internet connection

Be available, meaning…..Showing in ROSS as available

Have approval & understanding of your supervisor

Update scanner form as soon as you take an assignment with your contact info

Contact incident to discuss communication & coordination, projection, product delivery, etc.

Make sure you have an email for the incident

Safety

Work/Rest Ratio

Sleep

Situational Awareness

Drive Safely

Questions?