About

Jesse Sprague. Geospatial data scientist. Founder of a wildfire-intelligence firm. Work: Echospectra.

I am a geospatial data scientist and software engineer. I trained in earth and planetary science, worked as a USGS hydrologic technician and an environmental geologist, did graduate research in remote sensing and computer vision, and built data pipelines for oil and gas before founding a wildfire-intelligence firm.

This site is where I publish open-source analyses of open wildfire data: public datasets, open tools, a named fire or place, and a result I checked in the field. Every post links its notebook.

I climb, ski, and walk the ground I write about. The mountain posts use the same tools as the fire posts.

Four kinds of reader, one format:

• Fire. Agency fire and natural-resources staff: fuels, severity, perimeters, detections.
• Investigation. Fire investigators and public safety: detection timing, weather at ignition, spread from public records.
• Infrastructure. Utility and insurer mitigation teams: vegetation, ignition risk, exposure, corridors.
• Mountains. Search-and-rescue and mountain people: terrain, snowpack, siting, access, checked on foot.

CV (PDF) · Email: spatialdata@protonmail.com