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OSINT Wildfire Monitoring Tools

— Jul 25, 2019

As climate change dictates the need for wildland fire awareness in the western United States, it will be increasingly important to gather and disseminate critical, life-saving information as quickly and competently as possible. By learning to utilize a few free resources, you not only gain a greater situational awareness, but the ability to act based […]

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How to Use Free Satellite Browsers to Track Wildfires (and more!)

— Jul 15, 2019

In June 2001 Google launched Google Earth, a free-to-use, publicly-accessible satellite imagery browser (although many early images were actually aerial images, not satellite images). The program was the first of its kind that much of the general public was able to use, but since then the idea of free/public satellite data has proliferated. There are […]