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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2005
From the text ... 'Incorrectly mapped fire locations could distort the allocation of money and jobs. ...The two prominent location referencing systems used for fire locations on fire reports are latitude/longitude and Universal Transverse Mercator. ...Everyone involved in the recordkeeping chain must know the subtleties of map coordinate systems.'
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Citation: Delaney, E. 2005. The ABCs of correctly mapping a fire: New importance of fire location. Fire Management Today, v. 65, no. 3, p. 27-30. http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/fmt/fmt_pdfs/F.
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Keywords:
- education
- fire management
- firefighting personnel
- GIS - geographic information system
- GPS - global positioning system
- topography
- US Forest Service
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 18250 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Journals-F • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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