Stage Talks with Bellingcat22 Heinä 2024

“Tracking Wildfires Using Open Sources” with Aram Shabanian

This week we were joined on stage by Aram Shabanian, the Open-Source Information Gathering Manager at the New Lines Institute and long time Bellingcat contributor. Aram shared a long list of interesting open source tools that citizens and journalists alike can use to help monitor wildfires.

Find the full list of tools shared by Aram here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SJHzw5cSenCvEq7iGEyhHhRKAHq1vOcVlJy4sYAcchM/edit?gid=0#gid=0

And additional tools referenced in the chat here:

Aram's livestream guide https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/11/09/using-livestreams-to-monitor-crises-in-gaza-and-beyond/

Look up your local area's wildfire pocket card with this link: https://www.wildfire.gov/wims/pocket-card-table

Bellingcat's OSINT Forest area tracker https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/08/18/a-new-tool-shows-what-war-has-done-to-ukraines-forests/

Canadian map resource shared by an audience member: https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-map

OnXMaps: https://www.onxmaps.com/

Link to our Discord channel for tool idea pitches: https://discord.com/channels/709752884257882135/1173992891945861160

Wildcad.net: http://www.wildcad.net/WildCADWeb.asp

Oregon specific references:

Odffire https://odffire.com/

Arcgis view: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/6329d5e4e13748b9b9f7f33f06a3c376/?fbclid=IwAR2HH7Zxyi-vqihq8pWQJKzynrFK19bKFow-VjTAn3Puz6lZtHpz5JrTgP4

Inciweb https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/

Oregon Dept of Forestry Course: https://odftraining.thinkific.com/courses/media-access

The IMSR report shows national fire deployments in the US. In the off season it's updated every Friday. Peak fire season it's daily. : https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn

The talk was hosted by Charlotte Maher on Thursday the 18th of July in the Bellingcat Discord server. Music courtesy of Artlist.

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