Saving Forests Using Fire Detection System Based On Lancaster Research

2023-03-20T00:19+0100eurasiareview (en)

ForestWatch® is one of the most advanced automated forest fire detection systems in the world and has a success rate of up to 96%. It utilizes advanced image processing techniques partly developed by Professor Mike Kosch from Lancaster University’s Department of Physics.

Global alert: mountain forests disappear according to a study

2023-03-18T20:00+0100archyde (en)

Mountain forests covered 1.1 billion hectares worldwide in 2000, said the authors of the study, published in Cell Press’ journal One Earth. But at least 78.1 million hectares have disappeared between 2000 and 2018. commercial logging, the forest fires, and commodity agriculture have been the main....

Study Finds 2021 Wildfires Break Records With Amount Of Carbon Dioxide Emission

2023-03-18T16:51+0100indiaeducationdiary (en)

Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires, which have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically to a record high in 2021, according to an international team of researchers led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine. Nearly half a gigaton of carbon (or 1.

Saving forests using a fire detection system

2023-03-17T20:27+0100sciencex (en)

An automatic camera network which can detect and report forest fires up to 25km away has helped save tens of thousands of hectares of woodland in South Africa from destruction. ForestWatch is one of the most advanced automated forest fire detection systems in the world and has a success rate of up to 96%.

Químicos del MIT muestran que el megaincendio del “verano negro” amplió el agujero de ozono en un 10 % en 2020

2023-03-12T09:32+0100notiulti (es)

Las partículas de humo de los incendios forestales pueden erosionar la capa de ozono. CON /div> div class=glossaryItemBody>MIT es un acrónimo del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts. Es una prestigiosa universidad privada de investigación en Cambridge, Massachusetts, fundada en 1861.

Pic story: fire lookout dedicates himself to work for 31 years in SW China

2023-03-12T01:00+0100english-news-cn (en)

Huang Tongwei observes on a fire-lookout tower in Rongjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China 's Guizhou Province, March 9, 2023. It is the 31st year for Huang Tongwei to work as a fire lookout on a fire-lookout tower built in 1991 and perched on a peak of a....

Pic story: fire lookout dedicates himself to work for 31 years in SW China

2023-03-12T00:57+0100xinhuanet-english (en)

Huang Tongwei observes on a fire-lookout tower in Rongjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China 's Guizhou Province, March 9, 2023. It is the 31st year for Huang Tongwei to work as a fire lookout on a fire-lookout tower built in 1991 and perched on a peak of a....