Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
The San Diego Union Tribune has published an updated map / graphic of San Diego county showing the current active burn areas, and the total areas affected by the fires still active. Click map for larger view From the map, the Horno fire is clearly burning towards the Northwest across camp Pendalton, towards San Onofre […]
Last but certainly not lest, these are maps of the Harris fire from October 23rd at about 20:00 using the same IR platform as the other images. This is all geo-registered and layed onto Google Earth. None of these maps show the movement of the fires on the 24th (Wednesday), and I will update with […]
Same IR data source as before. All of the data is nicely geo-registered, and works well in Google Earth. The one caveat is that this data is all from October 23rd, so its from yesterday. Now some views of the Witch Creek Fire. You will note these are from all over the east part of […]
From the same data source, now a set of maps for the Rice Canyon Fire. A reminder this is thermal / infra-red imaging, so we are seeing “heat” here. IR at 20:00 Tuesday Oct 23 Looking East / North East IR at 20:00 Tuesday Oct 23 Looking West / South West Again this data set […]
I have discovered a source of Infra-Red data to be used in mapping. The data is high quality and geo-registered which is very good news for accuracy. The bad news is it is a day old. However I wanted to show you what Poomacha looked like at 20:00 Tuesday Oct 23 Looking East / North […]
I have some data on the Poomacha fire burning near Mount Palomar in northeastern San Diego County. A map generated by SDSU / Grossmont was used together with Google Earth and Google Maps to produce this representation of my best guess of what has been burning. Not everything within the red lines is on fire […]
Very briefly I would like to confirm that my early prediction and hope has come to pass. As I was outside talking to my neighbors on how we had likely dodged a bullet, the moist air from the ocean began to blow across Escondido. What this means is humidity levels are on the way up, […]
I would like to recognize another blogger who is working hard to cut through the lack of information and fog surrounding our multiple fires in San Diego County. The Blog is http://www.barboni.org/ and an example of the kind of work being done is shown below. Good stuff!
Collected reports from Reuters and SD Union Tribune: Wildfires threatened to shut down the last remaining major power transmission link to San Diego, which would make the Californian county an electricity “island”, susceptible to major blackouts, the manager of the state power grid said Wednesday. Photo credit SD Union Tribune If it is cut off […]
Some information collected from multiple sources on status up in Fallbrook, Winterwarm and Bonsall. KUSI news is reporting that there is increased air tanker activity over Fallbrook this morning and additional ground crews with bulldozers working the Rice Canyon Fire. The southern boundary of the fire is reported to have stopped at Gird Road and […]