Fort McMurray Before and After Wildfire Web App

The Web app below has a swipe widget that shows the before and after wildfire impact that swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. You can also view additional layers such as Latest active/non-active fires, Precipitation, Surface Wind, MODIS Thermal etc. Source: ESRI

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Wildfires in Alberta

The Web app below shows current wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta, overlaid with geo-tagged social media content (such as Instagram, flickr, youtube etc.), traffic and weather information. You can click on the left corner of the map below (the three horizontal lines just to the left of "Active Wildfires in Alberta" to view the layers tab and detail information about the web map. You can click on the areas of interest and get detail information about the wildfire situation in Alberta. Source: ESRI

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Wildfires in Alberta

Wildfires in Alberta - 66 burning across the province, 20 out of control, cites Calgary Herald! Just over a month after Nepal got hit by a devastating 7.9 Richter scale earthquake, and recently Texas being inundated with torrential rainfall, natural disaster has not spared Alberta either!

The situation is worse in northern Alberta compared to the south, where the situation is put under control by the wildland firefighters. News on Calgary Herald

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Download and Integration of Earth Observing System (EOS) data

Introduction

The Earth Observing System (EOS) instruments are designed to collect data to provide a comprehensive overview of the dynamic components of the Earth’s atmosphere, land and water surfaces (Campbell 2007). ‘The EOS is one of the primary components of a NASA-initiated concept which includes numerous platforms and sensors, including the Terra and Aqua spacecrafts. There are five sensors included on Terra and MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer) is one of them. MODIS is a sensor that is intended to provide comprehensive data about land, ocean, and atmospheric processes simultaneously’ (Lillesandet al.2004). In this study,MODIS Terra vegetation indices are used to create a NDVI map for Alberta province in Canada. The main objectives of the study are to become familiar with the variety of remote sensing data sources accessible through the internet; gain experience in accessing, obtaining and integrating data from disparate online sources; enhance knowledge about different file formats and appropriate conversion and re-projection process; and finally to develop cartographic skills to display the appropriate map message. 

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