the wildfires in Canada this past summer were historic. I worked quickly to analyze, map, and chart the historically burned areas in Canada to illustrate how this summer’s wildfires were exponentially larger and occurred very early in the wildfire season in comparison to previous years. ...
ProPublicamaps the change in California’s fire seasons. “As California continues battling its worst wildfire season on record,new research showsthat fall fire weather days—days with high temperatures, low humidity and high wind speeds—will double in parts of the state by the end of the centu...
History of the World in 47 Borders(Wildfire, April)—published in the U.S. asA Brief History of the World in 47 Borders(The Experiment, October)—Jonn Elledge has posteda list of the 47 facts about the 47 bordersthat are the focus of the book’s 47 chapters.Amazon(Canada,UK) |...
Let’s take a look at a basic street atlas of Cochrane that was created using MAPublisher 10.1. Cochrane is a town located in Northern Ontario which is not only famous for its mascot Chimo but also for being the hometown of Tim Horton, founder of Canada’s largest coffee chain. The atla...
While factors such as water vapor and ash can interfere with thermal IR retrievals in wildfire smoke45, the spatial consistency between the two entirely different indices shown in Fig.1demonstrates that both are capturing the underlying signal due to ethane rather than that of potential interferences...
We used three state-of-the-art machine learning techniques (boosted regression tree, random forest, and support vector machine) to produce a multi-hazard (MHR) map illustrating areas susceptible to flooding, gully erosion, forest fires, and earthquakes i
WATER ROADMAP FOR TR AVEL & TOURISM WATER ROADMAP FOR TRAVEL & TOURISM AN OVERVIEW AND ACTION FRAMEWORK TO REDUCE FRESHWATER USE AND BUILD WATER RESILIENCE December 2023 World Travel & Tourism Council 1 WATER ROADMAP FOR TR AVEL & TOURISM CONTENTS FOREWORD EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PURPOSE OF THE...
(Table 1). These supplemental datasets were systematically included or excluded, depending on their ability to assist image analysts. GPS locations had to have been collected within the wetland ecosystem for the field data to be usable, and the field data had to define an area that was at ...
mortality in some landscapes, wildfire managers are increasingly considering snag hazard at the strategic planning level to avoid placing firefighters in risky locations, which is a notable departure from the traditional reliance on field personnel to mitigate the risk with situational awareness and ...
Jasper, unincorporated community, western Alberta, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Athabasca and Miette rivers, within the boundaries of Jasper National Park. The park was designated part of UNESCO’s Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage