Wildfires are an unpredictable threat to the safety of both urban areas and wildland, and innovative tools are needed to meet the challenges these fires present. Using forward-thinking software programs to analyse information and facilitate appropriate actions, effective risk assessment of wildfires can provide increased protection for both urban communities and wildland areas.

Coastal Resource Mapping Limited (CRM Ltd.) created the FireSmart: Wildfire Risk Assessment Application to streamline the tasks of Fire Prevention Officers and automate many of the processes involved.

Based on the BC Provincial Government’s Wildfire Program, our application connects the facilitation of risk assessment and organization of crew and station assignments together with interactive management, mapping and data collection. Our application streamlines all aspects of wildfire analysis to provide instant access to vital information and tools, reducing risks and enhancing the safety of the wildland-urban landscape.

The FireSmart Application consists of three main components which work together seamlessly within the application: the Manager component, the Map View component, and the Client Forms component.

Manager: This web-based administrative tool allows managers and staff to plan, implement and review assessment operations. A variety of easy-to-use tools help to organize crew and station assignments, risk and hazard statistics and provide colour-coded risk reporting – all synchronized in real-time. Manager can be accessed from any internet service and easily links to any SQL Server database management system.

Map View: This web-accessible Geographic Information System (GIS) is an interactive situational awareness tool that synchronizes the real-time feed of hazard assessments. It provides managers and staff with a common operational picture (COP) of the situation and allows users up-to-the-minute access to visualize, query, analyze, report and print hazard assessments. The Map View uses rich colour-coded symbology and an intuitive interface to offer users an intelligent, interactive product.

Client Forms: This application component provides on-site field personnel with data collection tools to assess new wildfire risks, as well as review existing data. Client Forms give users on-site assessment drop down menus and check boxes, which improves the efficiency of assessments and minimizes the need for additional paperwork. Field Personnel can instantly generate a risk-rating report at a property, print it though an on-site mobile printer, then present the report to the property owner on-site. Client Forms automatically synchronizes with the FireSmart database management system and instantly updates the properties within the database, allowing the Manager and Map View to reflect changes as soon as they are synchronized.

The FireSmart application is designed to run on mobile devices including tablets, ruggedized notebooks and netbooks.

We, at CRMLTD, are constantly making headlines. Whether it is winning awards, or rolling out a new product, or entering into a contract with an awesome client.  Take a look at what we are doing.

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2009

2009/07/17 – CRM Ltd Launches new website look
2009/07/16 – CRM Ltd and LogCom Group roll out its popular Log Scale Manager and Log Data Manager software with Island Timberlands
2009/07/01 – Succesful Application to MoF / ILMB’s 2009-2011 Mapping and Technical Qualifications Contractor List / ILMB – Advanced Analysis
2009/07/01 – Succesful Application to MoF / ILMB’s 2009 – 2011 Advanced Analysis Contractor List

Coastal Resource Mapping is an IT company filling the GIS niche market. And as such, with our highly trained and talented team members, we have begun receiving recognition for our quality of work.

2009

• MoF / ILMB – Mapping and Technical Qualifications
• MoF / ILMB – Advanced Analysis

2008

MISTIC Science,Technology & Innovation Awards – Software Development

2006

MISTIC Science,Technology & Innovation Awards – Software Development

Our team at CRMLTD is well known for our efficient, expedient, and excellent mapping products. Whether you need PDFs, Technical Reports, Paper maps, Mylars, or some sort of analytical output, CRMLTD’s outstanding turn-around time will impress you.

Check back for a sampling of some of our Just-In-Time Mapping products.

CRMLTD has created an application that enables staff off the Ministry of Forest and Range, Province of British Columbia to efficiently collect location and attribute information and immediately visualize the data in a mapping application.

B.C. Forest Service agrologist Rob Dinwitty completes a rangeland health inspection form using mobile GIS and a handheld computer in the middle of a sedge meadow in B.C.'s Okanagan.

By exploiting the mapping capability of the commercial product ArcPad, our team was able to create a smaller and lighter mobile GIS/GPS solution offering advanced capabilities and feature-rich enhancements over conventional commercial-off-the-shelf products. This enabled field staff to expedite the field collecting and reduce the amount of post-field processing by simply docking the mobilePC to the base server and uploading finished data collection records.

We also created a custom application on the desktop side that provides reporting capabilities and graphical summaries at a glance.

Less is more, and weight counts when our clients are in the field, the smaller and lighter the solution the better. This is why CRMLTD retains hardware technology specialists, to give our clients the best value-added solutions.

For more information, please click Here to see our product as featured by ESRI. Alternatively you can download a PDF version of the same article Here.

Range health information is collected using ArcPad and digital forms. The data assists resource managers in ensuring that Crown lands provide palatable forage.

Summary analysis from field data indicates the degree of risk to range health.

MapIT! is a ready-to-deploy GIS viewer application. Designed for “due diligence” and “situational awareness,” MapIT! presents a Common Operational Picture (COP) by integrating spatial and non-spatial data from business-defined sources, into a dynamic map display.

MapIT! is a Web 2.0 technology providing users with a rich internet experience. The simple interface is intuitive to use, yet provides several powerful GIS tools for querying, analyzing, viewing and printing of map data.

MapIT! is designed to work seamlessly with:

• RTS – Referral Tracking System
• PhoenixPRO
• Any GIS Server, Web Mapping Service (WMS), or any other spatial/aspatial database

Key Features:

• Secured access to analyses, queries, viewing, and reporting of real-time corporate data at the strategic, tactical, and operational level, 24/7 anywhere in the world
• Compatible with popular browsers (touchscreen OK): Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox
• Configurable to any business area requirements:
  • One application can be distributed in several configurations
  • Print templates can be customized for common look and feel
• Display details from RTS and PhoenixPRO integrated with map data, in real-time
• Intuitive navigation with a rich set of tools using simple interfaces
• Graphic and Markup Tools, Shapefile Overlays, Pre-built Search and Query Tools
• Multi-user access to centralized and organized spatial data

Benefits:

• Clients require no additional software because it is web-based
• Reduced processing and distribution of GIS mapping means reduced workload costs
• Efficiently share and collaborate ideas with colleagues through markup & graphic tools
• Automated dynamic map printing from pre-defined templates
• Frees up IT resources and personnel to shift their focus on other innovation areas
• No need to worry about data storage space or hardware/software overhead costs
• Intuitive user experience requires little or no training

Map Series Generator main dialog box

Map Series Generator (MSG) is a custom ArcMap extension (.dll) created by Coastal Resource Mapping Ltd. With MSG installed in ArcMap, the user can print, plot, or export map series based on a user-defined indexing layer or text file.

Features Overview:

• Mass production of maps
• Select map extents from a layer
• Automatically change title and subtitle based on a field in the layer
• Print to plotter, or export to RTL (ArcPress), EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), PDF (Adobe Portable Document File)
• “Center On…” feature for Key (overview) map
• Integrated North Angle Rotation Tool©
• User can define a set scale
• Map series generation can be automated

Coastal Resource Mapping (CRM Ltd) is a GIS environmental mapping and software development company providing GIS consulting services since its incorporation in 1998. In addition, CRM Ltd also provides GIS training at its facilities as well as at off-site locations and on university campuses. We are primarily an ESRI ArcGIS shop, with ArcGIS 9.3 being the most current suite of products utilized. Our experience with other GIS-related products such as AutoDesk, MapInfo, etc has allowed us to offer expertise in a wider field of industry. With ArcGIS 9.3, and its predecessors, CRM Ltd has developed many mapping products for the private sector as well as for government agencies; international and domestic.

CRM Ltd has over 34 years of GIS experience in varying fields involving services from GIS Planning, Implementation, Management, Cartographic map products, Data Collection, Data Analyses, Custom Software and Modules, and GIS Training; and with various organizations from NGOs and First Nations to Municipalities, up to the Provincial and Federal agency level. CRM Ltd specializes in Just-In-Time (JIT) services with an emphasis on mission-critical product development.

As subject matter experts in our field, we are sought out by name, and have been industry-recognized to provide outstanding solutions, exceeding our client’s expectations.

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We created this application as an efficient and expedient means to create virtual flight-paths movies within the ArcGIS, ArcScene/3D Analyst environment.

As you can see from the  image to the left (click on the image for a larger view), the Fly Through dialog prompts the user for all the required information necessary to create a virtual Nap-Of-The-Earth Flight plan. Our program encodes a movie file by following a flight-path layer that is created by the user.

Once the user has entered the required parameters the program then steps along the flight-path and takes a snap shot of the current display at each progressive step. Once the flight-path has been traversed and the images saved, the program then proceeds to create the MPEG movie file.

Features Overview:

• Exports to MPEG or any popular Codec
• Overlay orthophotograpy, satellite imagery
• Can define the AGL – Heights above ground level
• Overlaydigital elevation models
• User selected flight paths

Contact us for more information or an on-line demonstration