Moving Forward with the Mapping

I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again. I love MSNBC's picture slide shows. They always have a few gems in their collections. The slide show I saw today was regarding the fires in SoCal. I thought this was a great photo, so I'll share it again.

I am mapping my first fire today: Buckweed. The fire is listed as 100% contained and the clock is ticking. The BAER team is already assembling. I'll be mapping it from the photography collected from the Ikhana UAV (mentioned in the previous post).

My DOI counterpart and I have broken the workload such that he'll map the large San Diego fires (Harris, Poomacha, and Witch) and I'll handle the rest. Seems fair, as most the northern fires are mostly on USFS lands anyway, and the ones further south are more a potpourri of ownerships.

We also received word of our first image delivery as a result of the Disaster Charter. JAXA collected imagery of the San Diego fires with their AVNIR-2 sensor. I've never used this fella, so it'll be a new experience for me.