Well, it took till July for things to start cooking. We're now tracking about 8 fires that we could potentially map for BAER teams. We mapped the Angora Fire (Lake Tahoe) last week. I made this 3D overlay in Google Earth and sent this to the incident. You can easily see how the fire burned over subdivisions. The problem with living in the trees in the Western US is fire danger. You just never know.
I'm a remote sensing analyst for RedCastle Resources under contract at the U.S. Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, UT. My primary job is to use remote sensing and GIS technologies to map the burn severity of wildfires on all U.S. Forest Service lands. This blog is an attempt to chronicle my efforts.
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That is incredible. I can't believe how big the fire was.
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