The State of Minnesota tapped into
FireWise, an organization funded by Wildland/Urban Interface Working Team (WUIWT) of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, aimed at involving communities in preventing fires, to map areas threatened by a blowdown of trees in 1999. The project is now up and running
Of note:
"The system utilizes Spatial Oracle, UMN MapServer and Java. Javascripting builds the front end html code for Web display."
Students do analytical work - mostly high schoolers, but also junior high students.
"The Minnesota Firewise program secured a modest grant from the National Fire Plan for the system to purchase software and hardware."
"...plans are in the works to allow the data to be displayed on a standardized client such as ArcGIS, Web Mapping Service (WMS), or Web Feature Service (WFS)."
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