Over recent decades, Western US wildfire activity has become increasingly intense, with many mountainous regions demonstrating increases in annual fire area burned14,15,16, annual fire area burned at high-severity14, the number of large wildfires16, wildfire emissions of aerosol17, and in some case...
Increasing average temperatures and heat waves are having devasting impacts on human health and well-being but studies of heat impacts and how people adapt
The cleaned and mergedIncident Status Summarytable is used to create theWildfire Incident Summarytable. This table extracts key elements from the individual sitreps to describe the fire and support high-level analysis across wildfire events. This information includes the cause, discovery date information...
A woman retrieves items from the rubble of her destroyed home after a wildfire came through the area in Talent, Oregon, Oregon, U.S. September 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File photo (Reuters) - The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) plans to file...
We kept up to date on the fires daily and did a few last-minute plan changes to stay far away from active fire areas. This trip was a lot more stressful and less carefree than any other trip we’ve taken, but after 6 months cooped up in our house, we had to go on an adventure...
When compared with other agricultural practices, prescribed fire resulted in significantly fewer fatalities than other operation actions such as crop and animal production [55]. Prescribed fire risk is often conflated with the danger of wildfire management, which leads to an inflated perception of the...
Army Lt. Col. Terence Kelley, the director of public affairs for the 1st Infantry Division in Kansas, confirmed Smith is an active duty soldier. He said the Army cooperated with the FBI in its investigation. “These allegations violate our Army Values so we take them very seriously,” Kelley...
With mobile devices proliferating like wildfire, you have a few choices when looking to build a mobile application: Build a Native Application for Each Platform You Want to Support This has the distinct advantage of providing the best user experience and performance for each pla...
Web visualizer tools have been developed for other specific domains like data-driven wildfire modeling [22] and fire inspection prioritization [23] in the past. Our developed web visualizer allows imagery and prediction layers visualization for any disasters where before and after disaster satel...