Fire Status from Incident Report: Crews continued to mop up on the west and north sides ofthe fire to prevent any fire from potential hotspots from crossing established containment lines. This area will be patrolled by airresources today. Last night fire crews continued to hold and improvecontainment lines on the north-east and east sides of the fire. Aggressive fire suppression efforts have stopped fire movement southto south-west along the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the AmericanRiver. Efforts to contain the fire along the more difficult steep andhazardous terrain on the south and south-east perimeters has been verysuccessful and that area will now be patrolled for hotspots. Strongwinds produced hotspots outside the line on the north-east corneryesterday. Infra-red equipment detected these and were quicklyextinguished by crews. Crews will begin repairing areas damaged by firefighting activity. The fire is established in Antoine, Manilla and Scewrauger Canyons andbelow the Barny Cavanah Ridge. Consumption of heavy fuels willcontinue to contribute to smoke in surrounding areas.
Some resources:
- Incident Report: http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/
- SimTable Report: http://apps.simtable.com/fireProgression/outputTemp/CA-TNF-HU11_%20american.html
- ESRI Online report: http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/?open=11487c248b3a407cb6fd446ce8ef73d8
We will keep you posted.
For more on the SNAMP project see: http://snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu/
This was originally posted on http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/.
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The American fire is burning into our SNAMP study areas as of yesterday. Here is a snapshot of our study site and the fire perimeter (red) as of yesterday. SNAMP control (yellow) and treatment (purple) watersheds are shown.
The American Fire burning in heavy fuels on extreme slopes about 10 air miles northeast of the community of Foresthill, California, and eight air miles south of Interstate 80 has grown to 14,765 acres.
Some resources:
Incident Report: http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/
We will keep you posted.
For more on the SNAMP project see: http://snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu/
This was originally posted on http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/.
/span>The Fall 2013 schedule of workshops has been posted! Check them out at: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshops.html.
Workshops include:
- Intro to Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Environmental Science Focus
- Intro to Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Social Science Focus
- Intro to Global Positioning Systems (GPS): Working with Garmin receivers
- Intro to Remote Sensing: Understanding digital imagery
- Intro to Remote Sensing: Pixel-based analysis
- Intro to Remote Sensing: Land cover change analysis
- Intro to Remote Sensing: Object-based image analysis (OBIA)
- Intro to Open Source GIS: Working with Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- Intro to species distribution modeling
- Creating your own web maps
ANR members are invited to attend. GIF workshops offer hands-on applications oriented training in a variety of geospatial topics. Workshop fees are available at a subsidized rate of $84 for all UC students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and staff. Workshop fees are $224 for all non-UC affiliates.
Originally posted on http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/blog/ - check it out!
We just concluded our first IGIS Program all-hands-on-deck retreat. We evaluated our program components and made huge progress on planning for the future. Key in our discussion was GIS Training for ANR, and linkages with the ANR Research and Extension Centers (RECs). The IGIS Program components include:
- GIS Services Center: If you are in ANR and need help with your GIS Project, check out the ANR Services Center!
- Training: We are developing a curriculum of GIS training. Stay tuned! The first session ("Intro to WebGIS for ANR" involving Google and ESRI products) will be scheduled by the end of 2013.
- ANR InfoBase: We are developing a database of REC related data and research project information. These data will be made available through an online webGIS portal that is linked to other similar and complementary efforts statewide (including HOLOS).
- ANR EON: Eddy covariance towers and climate sensors will be placed at each ANR RECs. All sensor data will be available to ANR and other researchers. Check out Todd's post on setting up one of these towers.
Originally posted on http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/blog/ - check it out!
- Author: Todd Perez
Eddy Covariance Flux tower deployment was completed August 2nd, capturing a wealth of ecoinformatics data for researchers. This is the 3rd of a 9 tower network scheduled for full deployment by this fall.