2020's fire season has already seen above-normal activity. It has been a brutal summer for firefighters and thousands of residents in California.
While weather conditions and air quality have continued to get worse, firefighters are monitoring the shape, size, rate of perimeter increase, and rate of area growth of a wind-driven wildland fire closely.
This project is to better share maps and data related to wildfire activities across California, helping people keep track of wildfires and take proactive measures to save lives and property.
Raw Data from The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
Jiaying Wang: Applied Data Science LinkedIn
Skills: Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, NLP, Spark
Work Accomplished:
1. Built up a pipeline with Spark to preprocess and integrate two different data structures and uploaded to the firebase database.
2. Maintained the firebase database, synchronized it to AWS RDS and updated them everyday.
3. Implemented the search function on our HTML web page to navigate raw data.
Yanan Lin: Computer Science (Multimedia & Creative Technology) LinkedIn
Skills: Full Stack, Computer Graphics
Work Accomplished:
1. Engineered HTML web page and basic functionality, designed front end UI, and published to GitHub.
2. Created GIS map module to receive and visualize wildfire geographic data.
3. Generated table to present raw data.