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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide GIS mapping for incidents?
GIS Mapping & Incident Maps
Yes.
KDT provides GIS mapping and incident maps: GIS specialists who build and update the incident's operational, briefing and public maps each operational period, from field data, drone imagery and partner feeds, aligned with NWCG and NIMS standards.
Typical configuration
- Personnel
- GIS specialists in the Planning Section, Situation Unit
- Products
- Operational, IAP, briefing, transportation, public and facility maps
- Data
- Field observations, drone and aerial imagery, perimeters, partner feeds
- Standards
- NWCG GIS standards on wildfires; NIMS practice on all-hazards
- Equipment
- GIS workstations, large-format plotter, field collection devices
- Cycle
- Updated each operational period
Everyone on an incident works off a map: the operations briefing, the division supervisor on the line, the shoreline team, the security patrol, the public information officer. Keeping those maps current, consistent and printed in time for the morning briefing is a full-time job.
KDT provides GIS specialists who work in the Planning Section's Situation Unit. They pull in field observations, drone and aerial imagery, perimeter data and partner feeds, and produce the incident's operational maps, IAP maps, briefing maps, public information maps and digital map services for each operational period, following NWCG GIS standards on wildfires and NIMS practice on all-hazards incidents.
On wildfires, GIS comes two ways: the GISS position, filled through the incident's overhead ordering, and the GIS Unit, or "Trailer, GIS", a mobile unit for GIS services, delivered with an operator at a daily, weekly or monthly rate. KDT supplies both. We bring the hardware too: laptops with GIS software, large-format plotters and field data collection tools. Pair GIS with our drone crews and the maps are built from imagery flown that morning.
Available as
- GIS specialist for the Situation Unit
- Mobile GIS unit (GIS trailer) with operator
- Full GIS team for a large incident
- Field data collection
- Large-format map printing
- Web map services for partners and the public
What's included
- GIS staff and workstations
- Plotter and map printing supplies
- Map products each operational period
- Data management and archive at demob
- Coordination with drone and field teams
Where it's used
- Wildfire IAPs and briefings
- Hurricane and flood response planning
- Oil spill shoreline segment maps
- Hazmat zones and evacuation areas
- Security patrol routes and site plans
Order one, several, or the whole roster.
Planning Section mapping
- GISS
Geographic Information System Specialist
Builds and updates the incident's maps and spatial data each operational period in the Situation Unit.
- FOBS
Field Observer
Collects perimeter and field information on the ground that feeds the incident maps.
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide GIS mapping for incidents?
Yes. We provide GIS specialists who build and update operational, briefing and public maps for each operational period, with the workstations and plotters to produce them.
Where does GIS fit in ICS?
In the Planning Section's Situation Unit. On wildfires the position is the NWCG Geographic Information System Specialist (GISS).
Can you print large-format maps on site?
Yes. We bring large-format plotters so briefing and division maps are printed at the incident.
Can you use drone imagery in the maps?
Yes. Our drone crews can fly imagery that the GIS team turns into current maps the same day.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.