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PYROGEOGRAPHY X SOUTH+NORTH CALI [2022-PRESENT]
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PROJECT METADATA_ PROJECT TYPE [DESIGN RESEARCH] PROJECT LOCATIONS [UNITED STATES, PACIFIC COAST, CALIFORNIA COUNTIES: BUTTE, NAPA, SONOMA, ALAMEDA, VENTURA, SHASHTA, COLUSA, SOLANO, YOLO, TAHAMA, LASSEN, PLUMAS, MENDOCINO, YOSEMITE, SANTA CRUZ, SAN JOAQUIN, SANTA BARBARA, SAN MATEO, SAN DIEGO, SAN BERNARDINO, LOS ANGELES & MANY MORE] INCIDENT NAME [CAMP; PARKS TUNNEL, THOMAS, TUBBS, COMPLEX, CEDAR, RATTLESNAKE, LOOP, INAJA, REDWOOD, HARRIS, CHARR, ATLAS],
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REMOTE SENSING A [MULTI-SPECTRAL & MULTI-TEMPORAL AIRBORNE LIDAR] DIGITAL DATA [POINT-CLOUD RADIOMETRIC DATA] DATA ORIGINATORS [NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS)] MACHINE LEARNING [POINT-NET CLASSIFICATION] GRAPHICS ALGORITHM [3D SCALAR FIELDS & VOLUME RENDERING, WEBGL UMAP & PIX-PLOT] PROJECT OUTPUTS A [DATA VISUALISATIONS X 1000 [8K-PX] B [MULTI-CHANNEL ANIMATION SEQUENCE X 2 [8K-PX] C [INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION X 1]
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION_ PYROGEOGRAPHY X SOUTH+NORTH CALI IS AN HOUR-LONG, POST-CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE, SYNTHESISED FROM THE SEMI-SUPERVISED READING OF 800 BILLION ULTRA-PRECISE DATA POINTS, ACQUIRED THROUGH MULTI-SPECTRAL AND MULTI-TEMPORAL AIRBORNE LIDAR––INDEXING APPROX 18,000 SQUARE KILOMETRES OF LANDSCAPE EXPOSED TO WILDFIRES IN SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF CALIFORNIA FROM 2018-2022 AND FLIGHT-TIME ARCHITECTURAL SHOTS OF THE ENCROACHING URBAN-WILDLAND INTERFACE IN AERIAL PLANS.
CALIFORNIA HAS ENDURED ITS 4TH YEAR OF SERIAL CONFLAGRATION, EACH SURPASSING THE EPIC SCALE OF THE LAST. IN ITS DERANGED PYROSCAPES, FIRE TAKES ON NOVEL FORMS, PROPAGATING ACROSS THE NEIGHBOURING STATES TO INCINERATE BIOTA AND CONSUME PROHIBITED AND LITHIC FUELS IN THE COLORADO ROCKIES. THE SUPER-HEATED UPDRAFT RUPTURES INTO A DRIED THUNDERSTORM THAT TRIGGERS MORE ARSON. THE DEATH TOLLS DON’T STOP AT HUMANS, INNUMERABLE NON-HUMANS OFTEN PERISH, UN-REPORTED.
PYROGEOGRAPHY X SOUTH + NORTH CALI IS A PRODUCT OF ONGOING RESEARCH INTO THE DESIGN INFORMATICS OF MULTI-SPECTRAL ‘AIRBORNE LIDAR’ IN REGIONS EXPOSED TO CLIMATE CHANGE. IN AIRBORNE LIDAR, A FLIGHT-MOUNTED SENSOR FIRES AN AMPLIFIED PULSE OF INFRARED LIGHT TO MEASURE SENSOR-TO-TARGET TIME LAPSE AS WELL AS THE SIGNAL FLUCTUATIONS BETWEEN EMITTED AND REFLECTED RADIATION, RETURNING TOPOGRAPHIC & RADIOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TARGET PHENOMENA IN AN ULTRA-PRECISE POINT CLOUD OF IN-SITU CONDITIONS.
IN A FORESTED AREA, THE PULSED EMISSIONS OF LIDAR PENETRATE THE GAPS BETWEEN OVERHEAD FOLIAGE TO REFLECT OFF THE GROUND SURFACE, QUANTISING TREE HEIGHTS, CANOPY DENSITIES, BIOMASS VARIATION AND FOLIAGE DISTRIBUTION. THE RETURN NUMBER OF THE PULSE COUPLED WITH SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE CAN INDEX THE BIOPHYSICAL TRAITS AND CAN CLASSIFY BURNED AND UNBURNED TREES. THE POINT CLOUD, AS SUCH, CAN MAP OUT THE LOCAL-GLOBAL SPREAD MECHANISMS AND THE BURN RATE OF IMMOLATION.
PYROGEOGRAPHY X SOUTH + NORTH CALI USES A BESPOKE WEB-GL INTERFACE, TO RENDER POINT CLOUD DATA IN REAL-TIME, USING DIOPTIC RENDERING TECHNIQUES, OFT-USED IN MEDICAL IMAGING. THE OUTCOME REVEALS THE RADIOGRAPHIC REGISTER OF FOLIAGE CONCENTRATION IN ITS VARIEGATED BRIGHTNESS TO INDEX INDIVIDUAL TREE HEALTH. IT SPLITS THE WORLD INTO BEFORE AND AFTER, TO CREATE FOOTAGE FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL POINT CLOUDS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPES.
THE PROJECT MAPS OUT THE UNHINGED PYRODYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. IT IMAGES LANDSCAPES AS TRANSIENT STRUCTURES, IN SYNC WITH HUMAN-MANAGED DEEP-TIME PYROTECHNICAL VIOLENCE ACROSS NON-HUMAN ECOLOGIES. HOMO SAPIENS, AFTER ALL, AS PER STEPHEN PYNE, IS A “PYROMANIAC SPECIES”, THAT ONCE COOKED FOOD, THEN LANDSCAPES AND IS NOW EN ROUTE TO COOK THE ENTIRE PLANET.
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