An ATAK Valentine
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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AJ-Pix4D for Firefighting
AJ Johansson Posts a video of using Pix4D to get info on a Brush fire, and uses CivTAK to estimate the amount of burned land. The entire post is below:
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Script to import Cameras to ATAK
AJ Johansson posted that he has a script from Par that imports the AlertWildFire.org cameras in California. I’d like to see the script published so people could apply it to other systems.
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KKCO – TAK for WildFires
This video from NBC11News.com (Colorado’s KKCO TV) on TAK — The Team Awareness Kit – verses paper maps, starring Brad Schmidt. It also highlights the value of mesh radios and Senator Cory Gardner (R, Colorado).
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National Guard Rolls TAK for COVID-19
The Army posted an article about the TAK Product Center Center’s support for the National Guard’s roll out of TAK for use in their COVID-19 response. There are several nuggets in here that haven’t previously seen print. Highlights: TAK noow has a TAK Product Center in Army Futures Command, under Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) This fielding is for 2,000 …
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Corona Fire Department Enhances Situational Awareness with ATAK
“We have had a unique situation that we’re actually seeing more across the U.S., which is the desire to use mobile devices to enable better team communication in real time and ensure that applications that require robust processing have the ability to do that quickly and on the go,”
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Colorado uses TAK to innovate on wildfires
This entire article from the Denver Business Journal is worth a read: This year, the Center of Excellence debuted the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), a geospatial mapping engine that facilitates situational awareness, navigation and data sharing among firefighters. As most fires occur miles away from reliable internet access, ATAK provides emergency personnel with smartphones and antennas to create a …
Colorado uses TAK to innovate on wildfires MoreCA Fire, CA National Guard Leverage TAK for Emergency Response
From DVIDS: MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. –The 163d Attack Wing’s Hap Arnold Innovation Center (HAIC) has turned California wildfires into a crucible of American ingenuity. The brainstorming center of the California Air National Guard wing, which flies MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) from March Air Reserve Base, enabled technology forged in combat theatres to work for fighting wildfires …
CA Fire, CA National Guard Leverage TAK for Emergency Response MoreColorado developing drone system with TAK
Wildfire Today reports that the state of Colorado is integrating drones with ATAK (“The Holy Grail of Wildland Firefighter Safety”) for firefighting use: The state of Colorado is working on a system that would use drones to provide live video of wildfires to wildland firefighters’ cell phones. The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting is beta testing a DVI Mavic …
Colorado developing drone system with TAK MoreWestern States Leveraging TAK for Wildfires
From StateScoop: “A lot of times you get in the woods and you’re not always sure where you are or where the fire is,” said Ben Miller, the director of the Colorado Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting , a division of the state Department of Public Safety that develops new tools for combatting [sic] wildfires. The drone flights in …
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