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15 September 2025

A Multi-Wavelength Approach to Wildfire and Air Quality Monitoring

The Rincon Fire Experiment: Using wide-area hyperspectral imaging at Birch Hill for the rapid identification and analysis of small events.

14 September 2025

Birch Hill, Palomar Mountain: Imaging the Invisible at Community Scale

Context summary for the work with hyperspectral cameras on Palomar Mountain

1 July 2025

Improvements to HPWREN Data Management and User Interface via AWS

Read about the new HPWREN data management tools and user interface as well as the story of our ongoing AWS migration.

12 February 2025

The Lunar Analemma

Robert Quimby, a professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University has used images from the east-facing HPWREN camera at the Mount Laguna Observatory to show how the Moon's position in the sky changes as it moves through its orbit. A plot showing the apparent position of the Moon every 24 hours and 50 minutes for 1 month is called the Lunar Analemma.

1 January 2025

HPWREN 2024 Year in Review

HPWREN's Year in Review overview of interesting 2024 activites.