WE DID IT! We found a fire! A real one!

Haha, oops. I'm not actually the guy that sends out bonuses and I just spoke with him and it sounds like the mistake was on our end. I guess you'll just have to do another 500 now

 

Actually, if you guys look closer at this image (which we should all be doing ) you can see three big fires.

Though they haven't been apparent until today.

 

No problem - it's a learning process for all of us.

One thing that's important to remember. We don't care if you think you see something and you get it wrong. We don't care at all. In fact, we encourage it. We just have to know if someone thinks there's smoke in an image. It's far worse if we miss something that's actually there but over time, we'll all get better.

 

What's crazy about this whole thing is we weren't sure we were going to find something all summer. I mean we knew this could work, but if you have to get kind of lucky to have a smoke pop up by your camera.

 

That's extremely useful information - I'll pass this off to the devs tomorrow when they get in and we can talk about possible solutions. If you could send us a screenshot, that would be amazing.

 

I'll bring that up, for sure. If it's not too hard to implement, we'll get on it right away.

We built the bounding box early and haven't implemented it from an administration side yet. So currently, we aren't even able to see where you've put it. The coordinates get saved in our database, which is important, but for our next development sprint, top issue will be allowing us to see where you've placed the bounding box.

 

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to do this. I don't quite see the where the error is though.

 

Oooh yea, I see that - thank you. We'll get on it.

 

That's definitely a pain in the ass. Thank you

 

I was going to post about that too. I'm not sure if that's smoke or if the pixels are blurred. The quality on the last few can cause some problems. I can mark what I think is possibly smoke, but it would probably multiple false positives per image.

 

Hey guys! Sorry I've been absent the last few days.

@GreenMachine842 thanks for pointing that out. Sometimes the camera breaks down. It's hugely frustrating. Usually, though, when it happens we draw existing imagery from the database. Limited Visibility was definitely the right call on this one.

@Tripsa @Eisenpower Yea, holy do we have a fire season. We haven't exactly figured out how to deal with the horizon smoke that we're seeing. It's obviously smoke, but it's not necessarily the type of smoke we're looking for. At some point in the future we might add a haze button but I'm not sure if that's the right solution.

One of the tricky things with this issue is that smoke still might appear behind the haze. That's what we want. I'm not sure. For know, if you don't see a little smoke in it, don't worry about marking, but there's no problem marking it anyways.