On Lord's Day I reported on 2 useful maps for helping to instruct out on rails of the spread of wildfires this summer. The San Francisco Chronicle's California Fire Tracker is mapping in addition to providing information on the wildfires currently burning across California. You tin equally good persuasion information most wildfires within in addition to exterior of California on the US Wildfire Activity Public Information Map.
Esri has forthwith equally good released an interactive map to rails the raging fires across the U.S.A. in addition to to furnish context to the severity of the California fires. If you lot lead a plough over the sack indicated on the USA Wildfire map you lot tin persuasion information most the chosen fire, including the kickoff date, containment in addition to links to the latest intelligence in addition to social information. Esri's map equally good includes an NWS animated smoke adventure forecast, this layer is visualized to correspond the smoke output of a fire.
The fires in addition to plough over the sack perimeters on the map come upwards from GeoMAC, a mapping application designed to furnish plough over the sack managers amongst access to online maps of electrical flow plough over the sack locations in addition to perimeters. GeoMAC members include the USGS, National Interagency Fire Center, National Weather Service in addition to Bureau of Land Management, Remote Sensing Application Center, Bureau of Land Management, National Geophysical Data Center. The information is updated manually based on information from a host of sources including those on the ground. It is of import to banking concern complaint that the map is non up-dated inwards real-time in addition to the plough over the sack perimeters are entirely a guide.
