About
Datasources
- Fires are collected from NASA FIRMS.
- Aircraft are collected from OpenSky.
- Weather is from METARs (Meteorological Aerodrome Reports) from nearby airports.
- 112 Announcments are scraped and parsed from Twitter.
Contributing
Adding new wildfires
To add a new wildfire, make a pull request that adds a new file to this folder. You'll need the coordinates of a bounding box that contains the fire, the ICAO identifier of a nearby airfield, and the start and end times of the fire. The API will collect the rest of the data.
Code contributions
This project is open source and contributions are welcome. You can improve the visualizations by opening pull requests on the frontend repository, or work on data quality issues by working on the backend repository.