Zumbrunnen et al., 2012), we take the view that climate change combined with changes in forest management and increasing recreational activities will alter the current fire regime towards a more fire prone one with a higher number of ignitions and more extreme forest fires, also in the Norther...
Current remote sensing monitoring approaches can be divided into two main categories: (1) the detection of degradation (or proxies) which could form part of an early warning system [e.g., 49, 72, 74], and (2) quantification of loss (or gain) in AGB [e.g., 63, 65, 84], which ...
predict changes in the PHRR, which serves as an index of fire hazard by defining the combustibility (rate of combustion) of the vegetation, thus offering a distribution of hazard critical for firefighting operations planning, including the distribution of firefighting resources and local alerts. Conve...
Globally, forests cover nearly one third of the land area and they contain over 80% of terrestrial biodiversity. Both the extent and quality of forest habitat continue to decrease and the associated loss of biodiversity jeopardizes forest ecosystem funct
A.Forest fires can be very difficult to put out or control.B.Billions of dollars are spent every year fighting fires in some countries.C.Sometimes firefighters will use airplanes to drop water on fires from the air.D.Forest fires are a type of wildfire.E.A strong wind can help a fire ...
interconnected infrastructures;climate change;forest fires;resilience;electricity;transportation 1. Introduction It is presently understood that climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan, serviceability, or even devastate critical infrastructures (CI), such as the energy, ...
Extreme forest fires have been a historic concern in the forests of Canada, the Russian Federation, and the USA, and are now an increasing threat in boreal Europe, where recent fire events in 2014 and 2018 drew attention to Sweden. Our study objective was to understand the vulnerability of ...
Forest fires can have devastating effects on the environment, communities, individuals, economy, and climate change in many countries. During a forest fire crisis, massive amounts of data, such as weather patterns and soil conditions, become available. Efficient management, intelligent integration, and...
The establishment of these plantations has been repeatedly hampered by disturbances, such as forest fires [2], the outbreak of insect pests and disease [3], invasive alien plants [4], and drought [5,6]. Additionally, forest land-use modification that arises from harvesting operations has ...