Sentences with phrase «monitor wildfires»

Here's what NASA monitors on Earth with its fleet of satellites: They monitor wildfires as they blaze across the western United States — and increasingly the southeastern United States.

NASA has announced an ambitious plan to surround the earth with hundreds of tiny satellites that could monitor wildfires in near real... Read More

But don't lose all hope; we're already employing some nifty high - tech devices to discover and monitor wildfires.

We are closely monitoring the wildfire situation in California.

The state will continue to closely monitor the wildfire danger and we will deploy whatever resources are necessary to protect New Yorkers should a critical situation occur.»

To monitor wildfire haze and track citizens» movements in real time, the team suggested using Twitter because Indonesia has the fifth - largest number of Twitter users worldwide.

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on FireSat, a thermal infrared sensor that could be attached to satellites around the globe, creating a constellation of coverage to monitor wildfire ignition from space.

Though ground and aircraft sensors provide the most accurate measurements of carbon monoxide for a localized area, satellites offer the best way to monitor wildfire emissions over broad regions, particularly in remote areas where there are fewer ground - based instruments.

Satellite data has expanded the capacity to monitor wildfire across the region, providing additional evidence of wildfire extent.89 This new evidence has led to increased study that is beginning to reveal impacts on ecosystems and wildlife habitat, but much more work is needed to understand the extent of natural resilience.

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Geographic information system and mapping capabilities that go hand - in - hand with UAVs have many applications across multiple industries, from bridge, road and pipeline mapping to tracking the path of wildfires and identifying hotspots to assist firefighters, crop monitoring and insect detection for farmers, and real - time imaging for search and rescue operations.

This image was created with data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project that the authors of a new study used to measure large wildfires in the western United States.

To study wildfires across the western U.S., the researchers used data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Project (MTBS).

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

For example, exceedances in PM2.5 concentrations were detected by air quality monitors at three locations in the Central Valley at the beginning of September 2017, with these exceedances coinciding with an outbreak of wildfires.

You can also monitor and obtain stats on the blazes in real - time using our new interactive wildfires map.

Now you can monitor outbreaks of wildfire in real time with Climate Central's new interactive map.

Other efforts include the International Wildfire Preparedness Mechanism, the International Fire Aviation Working Group, the EuroFire project, the spreading standardization of incident command procedures, the GOFC - GOLD fire monitoring and mapping program, and numerous regional and bilateral agreements.

Extensive wildfires across Siberia, associated with high surface temperatures were monitored by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) throughout May, June and July 2016.

The alarming pace of destruction — 51 percent higher than the prior year with a loss of 73.4 million acres (29.7 million hectares), according to data from the University of Maryland — was partially due to climate change that has increased the risks and intensity of wildfires by triggering temperature rise and drought in some places, the monitor said.

You can also monitor and obtain stats in on the blazes in real - time using Climate Central's new interactive wildfires map.

Besides the fact that I use MODIS frequently to monitor ice shelves and outlet glaciers, my colleagues and I use it to study snow and ice - albedo processes, snow cover in mountainous areas, vegetation recovery after wildfires, and ecosystem processes.

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.