One of the objectives of the Xinjiang project was to develop a GIS based monitoring system for use by the various responsible ministries and agencies in China. The Coal Fire Monitoring Information System (CFMIS) was our first experience in designing a monitoring system of this nature. It is based on the ILWIS GIS software package developed by ITC.

CFMIS works menu based. The users choose options with a menu click and work their way through:

• maps,
• attribute tables,
• images and
• other relevant information.

The following screen captures show some of the features of the CFMIS designed in the project:

• different scales of maps and images handled by CFMIS
• the location of the project test site
• recent coal fire areas in the test site
• steps in the CFMIS to be followed to view a 3D map of Kelhaza anticline

Experience gained during the development of CFMIS helped in designing other GIS packages such as CoalMan, which provided more functionalities such as generating 2.5D maps, hazard and risk maps etc.

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