SF Chronicle Disaster Maps

Partner: Evan Wagstaff,San Francisco Chronicle, Industry

Overview

Project Description

The San Francisco Chronicle has produced a well-known Fire Tracker for several years, using data from NOAA as well as NASA’s MODIS and VIIRS-I satellites. We are also working on a Flood Tracker for the Houston Chronicle.

In both projects, we believe the quality of the real-time data being delivered to our readers could be enhanced by additional data sources and custom processing.

Expected Deliverable

An ideal deliverable would be a live-updating layer or feed depicting real-time fire conditions (in California) or flood levels (in Texas).

What would a successful semester look like to you?

We would be interested to work with a team of students, showing them how we currently process data and discussing what we’d like to display. They would be able to investigate available products and create a system to ingest data and output a layer or feed that we can use on our maps.

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