While the population has grown in the wildland-urban interface – the region where houses intermingle with forests, shrublands or grasslands – we found that population growth accounted for only about one-quarter of the increase in the number of humans directly exposed to wildfires across the lower...
Wildfires tear through Northern, Southern California65 photos California wildfires fast facts 12:45 a.m.:Firefighters are battling three major wildfires in California. Here's a breakdown by the numbers as of Tuesday night, according toCal Fireand local officials. Camp Fire Location: Butte...
its development marked by several natural parks,ski stations and declining forestry and agriculture (Vaccaro and Beltran2007; López-i-Gelats et al.2009). It is the most depopulated county in Catalonia: population decreased by 75% from 1860 to 1991 (from roughly 19,000...
- Tuesday's transformation from sunshine to showers highlights the annual transition to rainy season in Northern California. “We’re starting to see some cold fronts move out of the Gulf of Alaska. We saw one a few days ago. There’s another one moving through the Bay Area today...
“Everybody wants this idyllic kind of lifestyle; we want to be on the coast or we want to be in these beautiful, serene areas where there's lots of shrubbery and privacy,” says Worters. “But you can't get fire trucks in — into areas that are prone to wildfires. A lot of th...
Oregon firefighters helping at California wildfires Firefighters have been sent from Oregon to help suppress the deadly wildfires in California. The Oregon Department of Forestry said Monday that two teams with equipment and personnel were sent from eastern and southern Oregon at the request o...
Besides the recent extreme weather events, the rapid fuels buildup since the 1960s is also a primary driver behind catastrophic wildfires in Portugal and the European Mediterranean areas. The highly fragmented cultural landscapes evolved into a dense forest continuum that resulted from rural population...
Wildfires are a devastating catastrophe for forest. Remote sensing experiments using UAVs for forest fires have already been presented. In [62], a heterogeneous fleet of UAVs cooperate in the detection and monitoring of forest fires. In [63], the large Ikhana airframe hosted the AMS scanner and...
[44] assessed methods for early detection ofVerticillium wilt, which is the most limiting disease in all of the traditional olive-growing regions worldwide. Another relevant field of application where a quick and efficient response is critical is fire fighting. Wildfires are a devastating catastrophe...