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GC Insights: Consistency in pyrocartography starts with color

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: . Fire progression maps provide operational and public information regarding wildland fire spread, size, and proximity to critical assets through time. Cartographic guidance regarding the use of color to denote the sequential nature of fire progression is limited, leading to inconsistency in fire progression maps produced for operational, research, and public applications. Because this inconsistency potentially limits the map’s accessibility and ability to effectively communicate information, I provide colormap recommendations to facilitate consistent, intuitive, and accessible fire progression mapping.

Source: Geoscience Communication

DOI: 10.5194/gc-8-167-2025

Author: Benjamin James Hatchett

Institutions: NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University

Language: English

Topic: Data Visualization and Analytics

Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Award: G2811385684