2004 AGU Fall Meeting

Multiple views of the October 2003 Cedar Fires captured by the High Performance Wireless Research and Education
Network

AU: Morikawa, E
EM: blazeruner@gmail.com
AF: High Tech High, 2861 Womble Road, San Diego, CA 92106 United
States

AU: * Nayak, A
EM: anayak@ucsd.edu
AF: Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California,
San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive M/C 225, La Jolla, CA 92093 United
States

AU: Vernon, F
EM: flvernon@ucsd.edu
AF: Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California,
San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive M/C 225, La Jolla, CA 92093 United
States

AU: Braun, H
EM: hwb@ucsd.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, 9500 Gilman Drive M/C 0505, La
Jolla, CA 92093 United States

AU: Matthews, J
EM: jbmatthews@ucsd.edu
AF: Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California,
San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive M/C 225, La Jolla, CA 92093 United
States

AB: Late October 2003 brought devastating fires to the entire Southern
California region. The NSF-funded High Performance Wireless Research
and Education Network (HPWREN - http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/) cameras
captured the development and progress of the Cedar fire in San Diego
County. Cameras on Mt. Laguna, Mt. Woodson, Ramona Airport, and
North Peak, recording one frame every 12 seconds, allowed for a timelapse
composite showing the fire's formation and progress from its
beginnings on October 26th, to October 30th. The time-lapse camera
footage depicts gushing smoke formations during the day, and bright
orange walls of fire at night. The final video includes time synchronized
views from multiple cameras, and an animated map highlighting the
progress of the fire over time, and a directional indicator for each of the
displaying cameras. The video is narrated by the California Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection Fire Captain Ron Serabia (retd.) who was
working then as a Air Tactical Group Supervisor with the aerial assault
on the Cedar Fire Sunday October 26, 2004. The movie will be made
available for download from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Visualization Center Visual Objects library (supported by the OptIPuter
project) at http://www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu.
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