Wildfire

ICEYE, a provider of natural catastrophe insights, has announced the beta release of its Wildfire Insights product. ICEYE Wildfire uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide building-level impact data for wildfires in near real time based on satellite imagery. The product captures data for any wildfire that impacted communities throughout the US, ICEYE said. ...

Um novo mapeamento da superfície queimada pelo fogo no Brasil revela que a área queimada entre 1985 e 2022 foi de 185,7 milhões de hectares, ou 21,8% do território nacional. A média anual alcança 16 milhões de hectares/ano, ou 1,9% do Brasil. São extensões comparáveis a países: no caso do acumulado em 38 anos, a ...

Nearly 150 students from around the world convened in person and virtually in March to take part in the Interplanetary Initiative pilot project SpaceHACK for Sustainability Hackathon at Arizona State University. Participants worked in teams to explore how satellite Earth observations and remote sensing technology from space can be used to better understand and address ...

In California, extreme heat and drought conditions now occur at regular intervals, drying out grassland, pine needles and other foliage, adding to the century-old tinderbox that stokes these enormous fires. However, the state is now harnessing a powerful tool to dampen the effects of these fires, namely artificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning. The abundance ...

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University, in collaboration with the United States Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, and Alaska Ecoscience, systematically analyzed the effects of six large fires that have occurred since 2000 on the Tanana Flats lowland in interior Alaska on land cover change, vegetation dynamics, and terrain subsidence, or ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal FIRE) has granted stakeholders an additional 60 days to comment on the state’s draft Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map for rural, unincorporated areas (State Responsibility Area). The move was made in response to a request for more time and clarity from the League of California Cities ...

Un simulador de incendios forestales diseñado en Zaragoza por un grupo de jóvenes ingenieros e informáticos, se ha convertido en finalista en un concurso de ideas convocado por la NASA. Con esta aplicación han conseguido ser uno de los 35 equipos de todo el mundo que han llegado a la final del ‘NASA Space Apps ...

Una profesora y un estudiante de la Universidad de Guanajuato (UG), del Departamento de Ingeniería Geomática e Hidráulica, crearon una aplicación que realiza el reporte de diferentes tipos de incendios, esta “app” vincula, directamente, los reportes a las distintas instituciones encargadas de controlar y apagar el fuego. La investigadora de la Universidad de Guanajuato explicó ...

For the last several years, Google has been using artificial intelligence to develop a system that can predict floods. It has also been working on wildfire tracking tools. Ahead of the COP27 climate conference taking place next week, the company announced that it is expanding those tools. First, Google says it will offer flood forecasts ...

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 ...

A new web service by a California-based mapping company shows detailed information on wildfires in real time. It shows information like nearby population size, climate and drought conditions to try to give people context on wildfires around them. Chris Ferner is a wildland fire specialist for the company. She said Esri developed Wildfire Aware to ...

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 ...

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 ...

La Unión Europea (UE) está facilitando apoyo a España, Portugal, Francia, Albania y Croacia para la extinción de los incendios forestales que sufren, informó este viernes un portavoz de la Comisión Europea. “A petición de Croacia y España, la Comisión ha facilitado imágenes de satélite gracias a Copernicus”, que ofrece mapas de evaluación de daños, ...

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 ...

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 ...