Sonoma Air Attack 140 overflew three fires and took more than 20 aerial photos with the GeoCam Mobile G-1 phone. We were able to view some of the photos in the GeoCam Share map at the Emergency Command Center in St. Helena just a few minutes after they were taken.
However, for many of the photos the downlink was delayed and we lost the position data due to a critical interface bug in the phone software (we figured out what happened and have a workaround, but will be modifying the interface to prevent this happening again!).
Many thanks to Chris Jurasek and Brian Combs of Air Attack 140 for taking the time to snap the photos and dwell over a cell tower to downlink them. Thanks also to Tim Streblow, Joe Petersen, Tom Knecht, and the rest of the ECC staff for hosting us.
The Morgan Fire as seen from AA140 flying at 2500', taken by the pilot with the GeoCam Mobile software on the G-1. The camera was aimed to the right as the plane circled clockwise above the fire. (Credit: CAL FIRE / Brian Combs).
A tanker drops fire retardant on the Morgan Fire. (Credit: CAL FIRE / Brian Combs)
Observer Chris Jurasek, sitting behind the pilot. (Credit: CAL FIRE / Brian Combs)
Joe Petersen (left) and Tim Streblow (right) discussing resource positioning at the ECC operations map magnet board.
Tom Knecht at a dispatch console in the ECC. The GeoCam Share map is displayed to his left.
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