Technology is furthering innovation in wildland firefighting across the west, including the Tahoe Basin — and not just in the process of extinguishing flames but in prevention of these catastrophic ...
Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...
Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...
In firefighting, drones get used to see hot spots in the dark, map the size of fires and look for damage. But the recent Green Fire also proves the flying robots also are effective in starting ...
A Philadelphia-based company, Treeswift, has created a drone called SwiftCruise, that can maneuver below the forest canopy and gather plentiful data from heavily-forested areas. The drone uses a ...
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Thousands of acres of California forestland go up in smoke every year due to wildfires ‚ in some cases, leaving nature struggling to regenerate. Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A helicopter fighting the 150-acre Barth Fire in Caldwell County nearly collided with a drone that came within feet of the aircraft’s bucket, the Texas A&M Forest Service reported.
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Scientists need to collect data fast to understand how forests are changing due to climate change and deforestation. In a recent study, scientists flew drones over the forest canopy to learn more ...
Like something out of a bad 1990s horror flick, researchers at the Hangzhou, China-based Zhejiang University have uncovered a way not only to have several various drones fly autonomously through a ...
The protection and security of Nigerian citizens are of utmost importance and require innova­tive solutions to address the chal­lenges posed by a constantly evolving threat landscape. With the ...