Using GIS to Monitor the West Coast Wildfires
With fires raging in California, Oregon, and Washington, scientists, activists, geospatial companies, and others are using GIS and spatial data to better inform and protect communities.
With fires raging in California, Oregon, and Washington, scientists, activists, geospatial companies, and others are using GIS and spatial data to better inform and protect communities.
New satellites and improved image processing methods are better enabling the ability to provide real-time and near real-time mapping of wildfires.
Researchers have made 38-years worth of globalĀ fire danger reanalysis available as an open dataset.
New techniques in GIS, remote sensing, and machine learning are incorporating land-based data along with temperature, precipitation and other weather factors in developing more accurate fire prediction models.