Forest images courtesy of USDA Airborne Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. Unlike most sensors, Space Instruments thermal infrared sensors utilize cutting edge microbolometer detectors which require no heavy cooling apparatus and can operate anywhere at ambient temperature.

Fire Data in Google Earth. Salt Lake City, UT. Fire locations are based on data provided by the National Interagency Coordination Center and are subject to change.

Information about GIS and pre-incident information for firefighters. GIS for the Fire Service. We are pleased to announce the redesign of our web site. We have cleaned up a lot of the content and retooled the organization. In addition, we have been working on a new application called PITMapper. com is to do the following. To provide information for fire and law enforcement about uses and power of GIS.

Fire information from space at your fingertips. net provides fire information from satellites. We support fire management planning through information on burned area, biomass burned and smoke emissions, as well as on the timing of the fires. We derive this information from satellites which regularly observe the Earth. When was the start and end date of this fire? How much biomass was consumed by this fire? Establish your fire baseline.