he HMS system is undergoing software upgrades that will impact both near
real-time (forward processing) fire and smoke data files as well as the historical records,
which will be regenerated. These upgrades include changes to filename convention and data
content and/or formatting and will take effect on
19 July 2022
. The details involving each dataset and file format can be found
below.
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The new data
will be available for testing through the URL:
noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS2/
On 19 July 2022
the new data will replace the existing data available through the URL:
noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/
For any questions
or concerns please feel free to contact the HMS team at:
ssdfireteam@noaa.gov
Summary
changes
*The
common
YYYYMMDD
sub-string below describes the calendar year, month, and day.
(1)
Dataset:
Active fire detection
(1.1)
ASCII format
Filename:
From:
hmsYYYYMMDD.txt
To:
hms_fireYYYYMMDD.txt
Data columns:
From:
“Lon, Lat, YearDay, Time, Satellite, Method of Detect, Ecosys, Fire RadPower”
To:
“Lon, Lat, YearDay, Time, Satellite, Method, Ecosystem,
FRP”
(1.2)
Shapefile format
Filename:
From:
hms_fireYYYYMMDD.zip
includes *.shp, *.dbf, *.shx, *.prj extensions)
To: no change
Data columns:
From: “
Lon,
Lat, Satellite, Source, YearDay, Time, Ecosys
To:
“Lon, Lat, YearDay, Time, Satellite, Method,
Ecosystem, FRP”
(1.3)
KML format
Filename:
From:
hmsYYYYMMDD.kml
To:
hms_fireYYYYMMDD.kml
Data columns:
From:
“YearDay, Time, Satellite, Method of Detection”
To:
“Lon, Lat, YearDay, Time, Satellite, Method, Ecosystem,
FRP”
(2)
Dataset:
Smoke distribution
(2.1)
Shapefile format
Filename:
From:
hms_smokeYYYYMMDD.zip
includes *.shp, *.dbf, *.shx, *.prj extensions)
To: no
change
Data
columns:
From:
“Satellite, Start, End, Density”
where density is defined
as
[5, 16, 21]
To:
“Satellite, Start, End,
Density”
where density is defined as
[light, medium, heavy]
(2.2)
KML format
Filename:
From:
smokeYYYYMMDD.kml
To:
hms_smokeYYYYMMDD.kml
Data
columns:
From:
Satellite, Start, End, Density”
, where density is defined as
[5, 16, 21]
To:
“Satellite, Start, End, Density”
, where
density is defined as
[light, medium, heavy]
(3)
Dataset:
hysplit
(smoke duration)
To be
discontinued