Fire Storm Destroys Homes In California: On Tuesday, August 6, 2024, a rapidly spreading wildfire in California burned many homes and forced evacuations. The fire started at 3 p.m. in the Shandin Hills neighborhood and swiftly expanded to at least 100 acres. By 6 p.m., the fire had ...
Except for the cooperative actions between UAVs that are described in the specific study, a UAS which is equipped with cameras and other sensors is presented to detect and localize fires with computer vision techniques. A bridge inspection system using UAVs is described in Metni and Hamel (2007...
Canadians Race To Flee Yellowknife Wildfire: On Thursday, August 17, 2023, water bombers and a weekend city-wide evacuation alert forced over 20,000 residents to flee their homes in Yellowknife, Canada. The 163,000-hectare-wide wildfire has burned over 2 million hectares of the Northwest Territ...