transmitting fire perimeters to the ground

[MarkZ]

How valuable is it to quickly transmit fire perimeters to the ground?

Some ATGSs already draw fire perimeters as polygons on the moving-map
topos. These are then handed off once back on the ground. It now
looks possible to quickly transmit thse to Incident Command using the
AFF/Sat-phones. Below is an excerpt from AerialFireTech blog
describing a possible method. Please let me know what you thing,
feedback, improvements, etc.:

- - - - - - from http://aerialfiretech.blogspot.com - - - - - - -

Several Satellite phone companies were present, Latitude and SkyrTrac.
Both want to help with transmitting fire perimeter polygons to the
ground. Latitude says they will look into making a transmission
applet. I’m hoping it will work like this:
- Draw a fire/perimeter polygon on DeLorme, Maptech, etc. (fly corners
or hand draw as we do already)
- Save/export to a file. DeLorme .TXT files are often tiny - under 500
bytes
- Attach the file or drag’n drop onto Latitude floating’s applet
- Hit Send - preloaded email address goes to Incident Command and
someone on the ground posts to Google Earth
- Within minutes laptops or iPhones on the ground, even at the fire,
can then see the perimeter

There should be no additional cost to implement this if your plane has
an AFF/sat-phone box with a serial port (the planes I fly do).
Transmission costs should be about $1.