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Butte County officials have released a map that features dozens of 360 panoramic images captured during a drone flyover of Paradise, California. The image above shows the near total destruction of the Apple Tree Village mobile home park off Clark Road.
Gregory Crutsinger directed the drone data gathering over Paradise in the aftermath of the fire. According to Crutsinger, 70,000 photos collected over 500 flights mapped roughly 17,000 acres in two dimensions using the drone over at least four days of capture and processing. The process is formally known as UAS or Unmanned Aerial System mapping.
This imagery was collected interagency task drone task force, including Alameda County Sheriffs, Menlo Park Fire, Contra Costa Sheriffs, Stockton Police, Stanislaus County Sheriffs, and in coordination with Cal Fire for airspace management. The public-private partnership led by Crutsinger gathered 360 imagery at over 200 locations across the town of Paradise with the help of San Francisco-based company DroneDeploy, which builds cloud-based software for drone mapping.
“My role is simply to be the link between the pilots, the image data, and the hand off of maps to the county managing the disaster,” said Crutsinger. “To get this work done is a huge team effort by all.”
Off Pearson Road, a main artery through Paradise, two yellow houses stand alone on a block of homes reduced to rubble.
Further north, the Paradise Pines golf course in Magalia is almost completely razed.
Due south of Buschmann Road and Berry Creek Road in Paradise, one block of homes in the Plantation retirement community stands unscathed. To see the county’s entire 360 drone tour photo gallery, visit Buttecountyrecovers.org/Maps and click on the “360 images” tab.
