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Time-synchronized movies of the 2003 Cedar fires in San Diego

Figure 1: Still from the Cedar fire movie, showing images captured by HPWREN cameras on the four corners. The image in the center is an animation of burn progression.


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The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN http://hpwren.ucsd.edu) captured images of the Cedar fire in October 2003 in near-real time. Multiple cameras were pointed at the fire to understand how it progressed and the images captured were very useful in the aerial attack carried out by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF). We have created a single movie that shows time-synchronized multiple views of the fires. The movie is narrated by CDF fire captain Rob Serabia (now retired) who supervised part of the operations to contain the wildfires.


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Right click on one of the links below and save the file first. Then click on it to open the movie.



To ask for a DVD of the fire video with additional footage, please send email to vizinfo@ucsd.edu


This movie was edited and produced by Evan Morikawa (Junior at High Tech High School) as part of a summer internship at the SIO VizCenter. He was assisted by Atul Nayak, Frank Vernon, Jennifer Matthews (IGPP), Hans-Werner Braun (SDSC) and Ron Serabia. HPWREN is funded by the National Science Foundation.