How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today
Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human experience is still essential.
Creating international testing standards for large outdoor fires
Large-scale fire events are on the rise, from the flames that raged for days across LA, to the widespread devastation seen in ...
Rochester Institute of Technology5y
Multi-scale analyses of wildland fire combustion processes
Prescribed fire is used as a management tool for a number of reasons- fuel reduction for mitigating the impact of wild fires, habitat improvement for game and other species, and as a successional ...
The Desert Sun28d
How do we keep a wildland fire from becoming an urban conflagration?
When a wildland fire burns, it consumes grass, brush and trees. Often times, those fuels are adapted to fire and quickly grow back. That’s what’s happening in the LA area. But when a wildland ...