Tracking Wildfire Risk – From Orbit
From the Orange County Register:
“As Orange County heads into another season of dry vegetation and fire-stoking winds, fire officials will rely on a time-tested method to gauge the danger: clipping samples of wild vegetation and, back at headquarters, measuring how much moisture they hold.
“But a new effort by a research team that includes Chapman University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena could eliminate the leg work – and catapult fire-risk assessment into the 21st century.”
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