Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
The Poomacha fire is still working hard to try and burn as much of Palomar mountain as it can, as shown in these images created from Google Earth merged once again with infra-red data from the Pacific Southwest Research Station. To create this kind of data, an aircraft flies over the fires with a special […]
Though most of the county is working hard to get back to the regular routine of life, there are several hot spots to the fires still being battled. One is the Harris Fire near Lyon’t Peak. The image below was constructed using Google Earth and data from Pacific Southwest Research Station. This data is from […]
The fires is San Diego are not yet out, but they are now burning mostly in the back country. There is still some threat to populated areas by the Harris Fire, Witch Creek eastern front and the Poomacha Fire. During this phase of the even information about the location and direction of the burn will […]
Amazing chunk of video shot via time lapse of the Harris Fire as it burns towards Lyon’s Peak in eastern San Diego County. The video features time lapse composite shots from several of the cameras, each starting during a night time shot. For current view of the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) […]
Reports around the county are that most areas evacuated are starting to let resident back home. This is great news and is an important step to getting people and the community settled down and back to normal. Two exceptions to this are Rancho Santa Fe and Ramona. Excerpts from local news sources follow: Several residents […]
Word comes again from the Union Tribune on the valiant fight to save the top of Palomar Mountain. Palomar Mountain is home to the famous 200 inch Hale Telescope, but it is also home to some 200 or so residents and a very nice state park and camp ground. Note: This map was made using […]
Photo credit SD Union Tribune The fires in San Diego County are still burning, but the worst has probably passed. At last count over 1,000 homes had burned in the fire, and word from the Union Tribune is that the first permit to rebuild was filed this morning. Prior to the fires, one of the […]
Again from the same IR source that was used for the Poomacha images. These IR images also display some of the banding artifacts that were seen on the Poomacha images, it is an artifact of the IR sensor. IR at 21:19 Wednesday Oct 24 – Lyon’s Peak Looking North You can clearly see the hot […]
The IR Source that I have been fond of did another sensor pass on the Poomacha fire last night. I now can show the extent of the burn on Palomar Mountain and near Rincon. For those of you wanting to look at the data yourself, you can find it at the Pacific Southwest Research Station […]
In an article in the Union Tribune, a new land use strategy has appeared to work. This is the “Shelter In Place” approach. From the article: Click graphic for larger view A disputed land-use strategy designed to protect new developments from devastation in the county’s exurban, fire-prone areas appears to have passed its first and […]