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{{Requirements|UserLevel=All users|Connectivity=Online only}}
 
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This document describes the functionality of the '''ARFI''' layer of the '''Map view''' of the InfoEx report.
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This document describes the additional external information source layers of the '''Map view''' of the InfoEx report.
  
The goal of the '''AFRI''' map layer is to provide users easy access to geospatial external information sources useful for avalanche forecasting purposes.
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* Modelled Surface Hoar Layers
 
 
{{Note| The name ARFI stands for '''A'''valanche '''R'''esearch and '''F'''orecasting '''I'''nterface and is from a Google Map project that Cora Shea developed for ASARC at the University of Calgary|NoteWithImage}}
 
 
 
==Layout==
 
[[File:ReportMapLayersARFI.png|300px|thumb|right|Fig. 1: ARFI layers of map view of InfoEx report.]]
 
The ARFI layers currently support the following external information sources:
 
{|
 
|style="vertical-align:top;width:150px;"|'''BC Drive Webcams'''
 
|style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;width:60px;"|[[File:ReportMapLayersARFI_DriveCams.png]]
 
|Access to the BC Highway Cams on Drive from DriveBC.ca.
 
* Click on the icon of a particular cam to to see its latest image.
 
* Click on the image to be redirected to DriveBC.ca.
 
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|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''Snow Pillows'''
 
|style="vertical-align:top;;text-align:center;"|[[File:ReportMapLayersARFI_Snowpillow.png]]
 
|Access to the automated snow pillow site of the River Forecast Centre of the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
 
* Click on the icon of a snow pillow site to see an up-to-date seasonal chart of water equivalent in the current snowpack.
 
* Click on the chart to be redirected to the River Forecast Centre.
 
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|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''RWIS'''
 
|style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;"|[[File:ReportMapLayersARFI_RWIS.png]]
 
|Access to the RWIS disconnect data of the BC MoTI hosted at http://infoexwx.avalanche.ca
 
* Click on the icon of an RWIS station to get a link to the correct URL for viewing the data for the last 24 hours.
 
* Click on the provided link to view the data.
 
{{Note|The Java Applet used to display the information is not supported by Google Chrome on Macs.<br/>''Workaround'': Use a different browser to view this information. You can directly access the Applets from http://infoexwx.avalanche.ca/.}}
 
|}
 
 
 
==Functionality==
 
* Click on the ARFI Layers label in the layer hierarchy panel to show/hide this layer on the map.
 
* Click on the label of an external information source in the layer hierarchy panel to directly zoom the map to the area that has related observation types.
 
* Click on the check box next to an external information source in the layer hierarchy panel to show/hide the particular external information source icons on the map.
 
  
 
==Related documents==
 
==Related documents==

Revision as of 07:42, 3 June 2017

REQUIREMENTS
Permission All users
Connectivity Online only

This document describes the additional external information source layers of the Map view of the InfoEx report.

  • Modelled Surface Hoar Layers

Related documents

Functionality tested by

  • Jan. 2, 2014: Pascal Haegeli