Advances in Applied Wildfire Research
A special issue of GeoHazards (ISSN 2624-795X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 5248
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wildfires are a major ongoing worldwide natural hazard. Urban development and a changing climate are exposing increasing numbers of people, homes and infrastructure worldwide to the risk and impacts of these events. However, ongoing developments in simulation and modeling, remote sensing, data gathering and geospatial intelligence are increasing our ability to understand these events, as well as guide operational wildfire management, recovery and resilience. Data provided by new earth observational platforms, such as hyperspectral and LiDAR, developing sensor networks, and high-resolution numerical weather prediction systems are being coupled with state-of-the-art processing and modeling to provide near real-time data on wildfires. The abundance of readily available cloud-based computing resources has also allowed risk analysis and mitigation modeling to be carried out at increasingly high-resolution scales. This new technology can provide detailed information on wildfires allowing strategies to be developed for their control, management and prevention. This Special Issue covers these themes, with a focus on the latest techniques in wildfire observation, data processing, machine learning, simulation and risk analysis under changing regimes, as well as interrelations between these disciplines and the subsequent impact and outcomes for future wildfires.
Dr. James Hilton
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wildfires
- modeling
- risk
- simulation
- remote sensing
- machine learning
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