Fire Risk Map

1.2. Learning Goals

During this module the main goal is to teach participants about climate issues while also learning how to use QGIS for visualizing these climate issues. In this module the main focus will be forest fires as a climate issue. At the end of this module, you will have learnt enough about QGIS and forest fires that you will be able to complete the following learning goals associated with each chapter: 

Chapter 2:

At the end of chapter 2, the trainee is able collect data from different sources, identify their quality and convert it to a unified standard and can be used for further analyses in QGIS.

Chapter 3:

At the end of chapter 3, the trainee is able to use the data from chapter 2 to perform three different analyses in QGIS on a selected area (calculate the NDMI, use the slope tool, and create a buffer), as well as to visualise the outcome using the symbology panel in QGIS.

Chapter 4:

At the end of chapter 4, the trainee can identify for each map what conditions provide ideal circumstances for fires to occur and classify them into risk zones to be used in a Weighted Overlay Analysis.

The trainee can combine all re-classified maps into a Weighted Overlay Analysis using QGIS and is subsequently able to visualize this into a structured, clear Fire Risk Map that contains essential components like a title, legend, north arrow and scale bar.