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GeoMAC Wildland Fire Support - An internet-based mapping application which allows firefighting coordination centers and incident command teams to access online maps of current fire locations and perimeters using standard web browsers
http://geomac.gov

Global Fire Monitoring Center - Sponsored by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Hosted by Max Planck Institute for Chemistry at Freiburg University, Germany
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/

Home Page for Wildland Firefighter - Site devoted to wildland firefighters. Includes current activities, an on-line newsletter and forum area
http://www.wildlandfire.com

Interagency Hotshot Crews- Listing of Interagency Hotshot Crews
http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/hotshots/index.html

IGNITE - An interactive simulation model of firespread across a landscape. Developed in Australia
http://www.csu.edu.au/firenet/ignite.html
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Image Navigation for Wildland Fire Location Mapping - Paper prepared for NCGIZ Conference on GIS and Environmental Modeling. ‘Efficient response to wildland fire is of concern to state and federal agencies...’
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/
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Incident Command Software - Distributor of incident command software
http://www.fieldsoft.com/

Introduction to Wildfire - Forestry - On-line course that includes Fire Behavior and Weather, Prescribed Fire and other information
http://www.forestry.about.com/library/weekly/aa100599.htm

Introduction to Wildland Firefighting for the Structural Company - Structure triage during wildland/urban interface/intermix fires. Strategic analysis of fire department operations. By Keith Brown, Lake Dillon Fire Authority

http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/applications/nfacsd/detail.jsp
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Limitations of Wildland Firefighting - Assesses available tactics against variety of flame lengths of typical local fire behavior
http://www.id.blm.gov/

NASA: Fire Information Derived from TRMM and VIRS Measurements - Derived from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Visible and Infrared Scanner measurements. They show the number of 4.4 square kilometer pixels in each half-degree grid cell that are hot enough to contain a large fire
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/
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