Incident Overview: Keep track of all fires in your AOIs
Monitor and manage all fire activity from one place!
In this article, we will cover how the Incident Overview allows you to:
The Incident Overview provides a comprehensive view of all clusters in your areas of interests. It was developed to be the new standard view of the Wildfire Solution, helping you with prioritization and Decision Making.
The columns are fully customizable, which allows you to track fires and sort them by intensity, last detection, or any other criteria you find suitable.
Apart from the Real-time Overview, you are also able to effortlessly compare clusters, in order to prioritize responses and manage multiple fires simultaneously.
1. Where to locate the Incident Overview table
At the bottom, select "Incident Overview" to quickly access it.
You can also toggle the display on or off by clicking on the bell in the top left corner.
2. Using the table for better Decision Making
The Incident Overview is designed to allow users to seamlessly monitor and manage fire incidents in real time.
It displays up-to-date information on active fires, including their exact location, intensity, spread rate, and affected areas.
Integrating your Data
You are also able to import your own Incidents and Alerts from external sources (cameras, phone calls, etc) into WFS, so they can be managed from a single place. To read more about it, please check our user data integration guidelines.
Clusters are displayed according to their classification:
- Unclassified
- Classified as Fire
- External Integrated Incidents
To learn more about how you should use Classifications to assist your Fire Management, please refer to this article.
Incident Overview
The Incident Overview groups all critical information, so that users can focus on what matters most without navigating other menus or the cluster details.
Integrated Incidents are differentiated by their icons, making it easy to distinguish between different sources.
You can add or remove external information using the Customization functionality.
The preset of the table will always show incidents with the latest activity at the top. All data can be sorted and displayed according to the parameters our choice, by clicking in the columns.
The Incident Overview adapts to the selected Time Frame. You can also use it to assess Historical Fires. To learn more about it, please refer to this article.
By combining Cluster Confidence, Fire Confidence, and Last Hotspot Detection, you're able to quickly judge how many satellites detected the heat source, at what time, and how likely a specific cluster is to be a fire. In this way, in a short glance, you're able manage and respond to incidents.
3. Make sure the Incident Overview is active for your Areas
The Incident Overview will only display information of selected Monitored Areas. You can manage both your notification and Incident Overview settings from the Monitor Menu. To learn more about it, please refer to this article.