GC Insights: Consistency in pyrocartography starts with color

Hatchett, Benjamin J.

doi:10.5194/gc-8-167-2025

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GC Insights: Consistency in pyrocartography starts with color

2025
By Hatchett, Benjamin J.

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Journal Title:

Geoscience Communication
Personal Author:

Hatchett, Benjamin J.
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIRA (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere)
Description:

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, which potentially limits these maps' accessibility and ability to effectively communicate information. In this paper, I provide color map recommendations to facilitate consistent, intuitive, and accessible fire progression mapping.
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Geoscience Communication, 8(2), 167-173
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-8-167-2025
ISSN:

2569-7110
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pdf
Publisher:

Copernicus GmbH
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

Grant no. NA19OAR4320073
License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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CC BY
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Submitted
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