Prescribed fire risk is often conflated with the danger of wildfire management, which leads to an inflated perception of the risk involved in prescribed burning. In a 50-year span from 1963 to 2013 on forests and grasslands, only 6 deaths were related to prescribed burns as opposed to 201 ...
Leverage wildland fire software and GIS for efficient fire mapping and analysis. Plan and prepare for, mitigate, suppress & recover from wildfires with ease.
adapted for non-fire use. In parallel with this effort, the NWCG adopted and revised the FIRESCOPE ICS documentation to create the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS) Incident Command System Operational System Description (ICS 120-1) - a document that was collectively maintained ...
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
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...
The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance, extending well beyond the current seasonal forecast and helping segments of the economy related to agriculture, water manageme
As such, they are uniquely suited to provide estimates of fire spread rate and duration, but only if we can say which pixels are all part of the same event. There have been some attempts to characterize fire spread using active fire products, but the code and resulting data products are ...
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...