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A wildfire smoke detection system using unmanned aerial vehicle images based on the optimized YOLOv5
Mukhiddinov, Abdusalomov, ChoWildfire is one of the most significant dangers and the most serious natural catastrophe, endangering forest resources, animal life, and the human economy. Recent years have witnessed a rise in wildfire incidents. The two main factors are persistent…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Carlson, Helmers, Hawbaker, Mockrin, Radeloff
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is the focus of many important land management issues, such as wildfire, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and human–wildlife conflicts. Wildfire is an especially critical issue, because housing growth in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Shmuel, Heifetz
Wildfires are a major natural hazard that lead to deforestation, carbon emissions, and loss of human and animal lives every year. Effective predictions of wildfire occurrence and burned areas are essential to forest management and firefighting. In…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
This portal is an ArcGIS Online platform that provides access to maps, data, documents, and other resources for practitioners working in grassland and sagebrush biomes. Many of the resources are developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and…
Year: 2022
Type: Website
Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) invests in science to proactively target conservation investments and quantify outcomes. This report summarizes more than a decade of WLFW science’s current understanding of identified sagebrush biome threats on…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
The USDA, USFS, and USGS have put together a new Burn Severity Portal, which is a single access point for as much post-fire mapping and field plot data as possible. The portal includes data gathered through a wide range of federal programs including…
Year: 2021
Type: Website
Steiner, Wetter, Robertson, Teet, Wang, Wu, Zhou, Brown, Xiao
Devastating wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 2016 and 2017 resulted in significant social, economic, and environmental losses, with the agricultural sector among those severely affected. Several satellite-based indices were evaluated as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Ghorbanzadeh, Kamran, Blaschke, Aryal, Naboureh, Einali, Bian
Recently, global climate change discussions have become more prominent, and forests are considered as the ecosystems most at risk by the consequences of climate change. Wildfires are among one of the main drivers leading to losses in forested areas…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Allred, Jones
The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is a free, online tool that helps landowners and natural resource managers track vegetation through time and plan actions to improve America's grazing lands. The RAP can be used to provide strategies to improve…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Sesnie, Eagleston, Johnson, Yurcich
Fire has historically played an important role in shaping the structure and composition of Sonoran semi-desert grassland vegetation. Yet, human use and land management activities have significantly altered arid grassland ecosystems over the last…
Year: 2018
Type: Document