Natural Hazard

Emergency crews responding to hurricane-damaged areas may soon get an assist from a machine learning model that can better predict the extent of building damage soon after the storm passes. The model uses remote sensing from satellites that can generate building footprints from pre-hurricane images and then compare them with images taken after the storm. ...

A map that shows damage levels to properties on Sanibel Island has been completed from the assessment of structures by Urban Search and Rescue Teams. The damage assessments show there is widespread damage on the island, causing dangerous conditions throughout Sanibel and particularly in and around various structures. Maps can be viewed by clicking here ...

Una mappatura partecipata di tutti gli eventi meteo estremi che colpiscono il nostro Paese. Questo l’obiettivo di CLIMap, progetto di gisAction e Legambiente che vuole accendere i riflettori sul rischio climatico e sulla crisi climatica a partire dall’esperienza del singolo cittadino. Ogni utente potrà quindi segnalare l’evento climatico estremo che lo ha colpito e quali ...

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Montana have developed a way to forecast which of the Great Basin’s more than 60 million acres have the highest probability of a large rangeland fire. The forecasts come from a model developed by the researchers that combines measures of ...

Environmental managers will have a powerful new resource for helping our forests survive and recover from wildfire, drought and disease. UC Davis ecologist Derek Young is leading a team to develop the Open Forest Observatory, a pioneering project combining drone photography and forest mapping with machine learning, remote sensing, big-data crunching and open information sourcing. ...

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration in partnership with Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) jointly launched a new website to help communities across the nation understand the real-time climate-related hazards in their area, analyze projected long-term exposure to those hazards, and identify federal funds to support ...

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ex-post facto approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on August 2, 2022 between the National Disaster Management Authority of the Republic of India and the National Disaster Management Authority of the Republic of Maldives on cooperation in the field of Disaster Management, a press ...

A new classification of the world’s coastlines has been released to improve coastal climate change adaptation at local, regional and national level and strengthen coordinated climate action worldwide. The classification builds on the Coastal Hazard Wheel that is a universal coastal management framework and is developed by the Coastal Hazard Wheel initiative involving Deltares, the ...

La Consejería de Transición Ecológica, Lucha contra el Cambio Climático y Planificación Territorial del Gobierno de Canarias, a través de la empresa pública Cartográfica de Canarias (Grafcan), ha publicado la actualización de los mapas de vegetación de las islas de Lanzarote y La Palma en el visor web de la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de ...

El Cabildo de Gran Canaria ha implantado un simulador 3D de incendios forestales por escáner pionero que utiliza sistemas de información geográfica (GIS) para analizar datos en tiempo real con los que prever cómo se va a comportar el fuego, a qué zonas alcanzará, cómo se moverá y en qué momento ocurrirá para actuar en ...

KT 는 이지스와 3D 지도·공간정보를 바탕으로 일조권 변화·침수 예측 등 모의시험이 가능한 ‘디지털 트윈 플랫폼 서비스’를 공동 구축하는 데 협력하는 업무협약(MOU)을 맺었다고 26일 밝혔다. KT는 자사 클라우드 게임서비스 ‘게임박스’에 쓰이는 차세대 게임스트리밍 솔루션으로 디지털 트윈 플랫폼을 제공하고 있다. 디지털트윈은 현실의 사물이나 시스템 등을 가상공간에 같은 크기로 만들어 시뮬레이션하는 기술이다. 이지스는 자체 지리정보시스템(GIS) 엔진 기술로 3D ...

On 19 March 2021, the volcano Fagradalsfjall began to erupt, suggesting that volcanoes on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula had awakened from an 800-year slumber. Although most volcanism in Iceland occurs in regions far from population centers, eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula can threaten residents. Pedersen and a team of scientists came together to create maps to ...

En medio de un verano con temperaturas récord, alertas rojas y catástrofes forestales nuevas cada semana, Emilio Chuvieco ha recibido el premio Jaime I a la Protección del Medio Ambiente, el galardón con mejor dotación económica del país. Su trabajo en teledetección y su aplicación a la localización y observación de incendios poseen una importancia ...

Esta investigación realizada en el departamento de Mecánica de Estructuras e Ingeniería Hidráulica de la UGR ha empleado una herramienta rápida, fiable y escalable para pronosticar y cuantificar los daños sísmicos en zonas urbanas. Al contrario que las metodologías tradicionales de vulnerabilidad sísmica, la investigación no está basada en exámenes visuales de edificios, sino en ...

In den vergangenen Jahren gab es in Deutschland immer wieder Sturzfluten mit zum Teil verheerenden Auswirkungen. Ausgelöst wurden sie durch lokalen Starkregen. Eine Warnung vor solchen Ereignissen ist bisher oft nicht möglich, weil ihre Entstehung kompliziert ist und sie meist schnell und räumlich stark begrenzt auftreten. Ein neues Forschungsprojekt soll diese Lücke im Warnsystem schließen. ...

Das vom bayerischen Raumfahrtforschungsprogramm geförderte Verbundprojekt „SERAFIM“ verfolgt das Ziel, Waldbrände mittels Satelliten schneller und besser zu detektieren. Die Professur für Erdbeobachtung an der Universität der Bundeswehr München befasst sich als Projektpartner mit der Entwicklung von vollautomatischen, KI-basierten Georeferenzierungs-Verfahren für die Infrarot-Aufnahmen der Satelliten. Die Waldbrandsaison ist momentan wieder in vollem Gange. Solche Brände gilt ...

The Fraser Valley Regional District has updated its emergency map with historic flood markers. The updated FVRD Emergency Status Map was made available this month, just as those living and working near the Fraser River and its tributaries have been keeping a close eye on the spring freshet. It can be used to view important ...

Nine of the 20 largest wildfires in California in the last 110 years were started by lightning strikes, including the devastating Lightning Complex fires in August 2020 that burned more than 750,000 acres in and around the Bay Area. Between 2017 and 2021, Northern California has witnessed 2,093 lightning-induced wildfires. And research now suggests that ...

La directora del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Celeste Saulo, encabezó el evento en el Edificio Libertador con la presencia del Embajador de Japón en Argentina, Takahiro Nakamae. El Proyecto Pronóstico y Alerta de Eventos de Inundaciones Repentinas (PREVENIR) es una una iniciativa de investigación conjunta la Agencia de Cooperación Internacional del Japón (JICA), la Agencia de ...

In June, days of heavy rains and snowmelt led to the flooding of Yellowstone River and rivers in other parts of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, causing what the U.S. Geological Survey referred to as a “1 in 500-year event.” The flooding destroyed bridges, swept away roads, spurred mudslides, led to the evacuation of more than ...

This year, a research institute hopes social media can play a more practical role – asking residents to tweet details about floods in their neighbourhoods and using the data to issue geographically specific flood alerts in real-time. Around the world in countries including Australia and Indonesia, climate researchers are increasingly using data gathered via social ...

As Fairfax County finalizes its first-ever plan to address the future effects of climate change, community members can see how the phenomenon already affects them with a newly released interactive map. Launched last week, the climate map depicts heat and flooding data that can be viewed in conjunction with maps of the county’s population and ...