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 […]

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 […]