Your maps are great Zeke thank you for all your work! I agree with your sentiments of being able to get a better understanding of the topography by shifting the perspective and getting to check out the different aspects is very handy, generally only takes a quick check of the compass to get oriented! Thanks again!
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Have you thought about volunteer help or internships for supporting The Lookout?
The website has been up for like a whole month already shouldn’t you have a support team by now /s?
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Where would I be able to find high resolution post-fire imagery?
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I made a post in response to @apx8000 relaying that the helco and AA having a hard time with seeing the spots due to smoke and by the time they could recognize them they are 5 acres. It got flagged by the community as innapropriate for the thread so i will put it here.
My response was that this was a perfect argument for persistent IR capability when in a firefight like the MMU-OAK. Having a manned or unmanned aircraft above the stack share the IR data live with the AA and helco and ops folks on the ground to make our ops safer and more efficient.
FIRIS is fully capable of doing this today right into ATAK. Courtney could as well with a few little minor enhancements. This is just like what the DRTI folks do when we have them out but we dont need to wait for the military to do this. We have the sensors and applications to do it even during IA.
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Who is flagging these posts? They seem perfectly appropriate.
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Snowflake software
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If I were to guess, the first two because I think they were on the Continuing thread, the other two not sure.
Either way I’m guessing the the flags have carried over to this thread, not sure why they are blocked here.
Maybe Skynet has become self aware and see them as giving up secret info. 
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Im not concerned about the flagging lol lets talk leveraging technology like persistent IR to OPS folks! There has been nearly round the clock coverage from IR yet we have helco and air attack struging with locating spots until they are 5 acres. The visibility definetely does not help with aircraft but hearing dozers having to pull out and reengage because now there are 5 acre spots that the AA and helco could not see visibly when they were much smaller is an issue we could solve with technology available today.
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Courtney has flown the fire twice this afternoon but there is no publicly-available IR data I can find posted. Who on the ground has access to this intel? They already live-stream their perimeters from the plane. If they put this info on a public server like FIRIS does, anyone with cell and ATAK would have it.
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Hey folks! FYI I just got my AS Degree in Fire Tech and will transfer to ASU this spring for my BS in GIS. Any tips on learning ArcPro on my own or with an online cert course? Very cool convo BTW! I’m intrigued!
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Congrats!
Lots of practice is key for learning GIS, and some classes on GIS fundamentals. Look for a course that is platform-independent and teaches the basics of GIS, not just ArcPro. Also, see if you can get a course in remote sensing (imagery analysis). Satellite data and LiDAR are really some of the best tools for fire and fules-related GIS and analysis. And solid spreadsheet skills are really important for GIS.
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What public server if OES Intel planes posting to?
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https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ecb248b2010a46efa5c3589f3333d189
Link is in bottom-right corner.
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Remote sensing Sounds like my cup of tea! When you say spreadsheet are you talking Excel? I will have to look again at the classes list to see if those skills are addressed. 6 trimesters. If you have any recs for platforms please think of me and send my way! Thank YOU!
@heart4paso like Zeke said lots of reps. My MS is in GIS with a heavy concentration on remote sensing. GIS as a whole is soooo broad. Making a map although really cool is such the surface, the good stuff is the analysis and display of data. Have fun! If you ever want to read my research paper on using remote sensing for automated initial damage assessment let me know.
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If you are going thru a full program you’ll get all the good stuff. Yes, Excel is the standard. I recommend learning QGIS. It’s free, which will be nice once you are no longer getting the free student licenses and have to pay Esri $1,500-$5k/year to have all the tools you got used to having. Also, it runs on a Mac!
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Absolutely yes please!!! I will PM my email.
Here everyone can get a good read when they are having trouble falling asleep.
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Gonna say something sexy in excel… Pivot tables!
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