If those detection systems identified homes or neighborhoods without defensible space before a fire starts, they’d be truly helpful.
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I’d have thought that would be done by now. The imagery and GIS platforms exist (and have for a while now) to do just this. I get a nationwide coverage would be difficult, but something on a regional/state basis with useful updates could be done.
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lol - yeah and then what. Knock on their doors and tell them something they dont already know? Look I like technology but none of these wui communities burning down is a surprise. I do feel a bit for the folks 1/2 mile down range whose homes burn due to conflagration because those truly in the WUI dont harden their homes.
Humans think it will never happen to them and then blame everyone but themselves when it does.
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Yeah, Is easy enough to do with vantor or planet imagery (Plus others).
Speaking of which anyone going to ESRI UC or ES3?
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The EFA sats are set up to change the game of fire sat mapping/monitoring/detection. Looking forward to see how the next few years develops with the deployment of their 3 sats and future ones.
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BINGO! Isn’t it amazing (and frustrating) how that works…
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Question for anybody who may be familiar with it, but has anybody here ever used IGNIS for a mapping tool? It seems alot like a mix between field maps and caltopo, I’ve found it to be pretty useful so far. Im assigned to a fire in colorado and its the first I’ve heard of it. Im good with arcgis, caltopo, fieldmaps and avenza. I think I’ve covered all those over my career, but just curious about thoughts and input on its use. Wether its user friendly. Its free.
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Yes
Used it last year for the 1st time. I was able to screen mirror it to a medium size TV a BC had and the drone operators modified the drop pattern of the ping pong balls during several night firing operations to match the fire effects with the terrain.
If you have StarLink anytime a new IR Perimeter gets posted you can see it in close to real time on the 3D map.
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Ok, thanks. Ive been playing with it and the perimeter map overlays are awesome. Theyve been e tremely helpful in tracking along dozer lines and if does go to real time with the IR, so that reduces guess work.
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IGNIS is great app, developed by wildland firefighters. Bought by Bridger a couple years ago. Bridger recenlty got another IR AC contract. Look for IGNIS to continue to grow with its day to day mapling use and direct link to IR AC for streaming.
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@The_dude you should give ATAK a try sometime.
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Oh the pressure to do something. They buy some Seneca’s? I sure hope they dindn’t have to pay full price. They should be giving them to CAL-FIRE for R&D.
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Politicians having optics focused press briefings and taking credit for other peoples work is a tale as long as time.
If I had to guess it was a proof-of-concept type purchase to evaluate actual usefulness.
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Yeah we need proving grounds, get them on burns, they oh we flew and put out a camp fire at the airport is really not a great indicator of success. I see more value in the logistics in heavy lift UAS than i do in fire suppression when it matters most, which is the message they cant stop saying, we will prevent catastrophic fires before the get large without bringing into consideration what gets them so large in the first place or really when they impact the homes the most is the largest challenge for these drones…WIND
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You have got to be kidding me?! 
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Are electrically powered saws fine for whatever job it’s attempting to replicate
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perfect example of just because you can, does not mean you should.
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