Bushfire management strategies: current practice, technological advancement and challenges

S Bandara, S Navaratnam, P Rajeev - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bushfires are classified as catastrophic disasters capable of inflicting significant destruction.
The key detrimental consequences of bushfires include the loss of human lives, trauma …

Global distribution, trends and types of active fire occurrences

M Xiang, C Xiao, Z Feng, Q Ma - Science of the total environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Fire occurrence is synonymous to terrestrial ecosystems and an important component of the
Earth system. Climate change, vegetation characteristics, and human activity regulate fire …

UAV patrolling for wildfire monitoring by a dynamic voronoi tessellation on satellite data

A Giuseppi, R Germanà, F Fiorini, F Delli Priscoli… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fire monitoring and early detection are critical tasks in which Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) are commonly employed. This paper presents a system to plan the drone patrolling …

Re-envisioning wildland fire governance: addressing the transboundary, uncertain, and contested aspects of wildfire

BA Miller, L Yung, C Wyborn, M Essen, B Gray… - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wildfire is a complex problem because of the diverse mix of actors and landowners involved,
uncertainty about outcomes and future conditions, and unavoidable trade-offs that require …

Artificial intelligence and sustainability: solutions to social and environmental challenges

F Taghikhah, E Erfani, I Bakhshayeshi, S Tayari… - Artificial intelligence and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human-induced climate change and deterioration of our natural environment are critical
problems. Advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), offer potential for the …

Wildfire identification based on an improved two-channel convolutional neural network

YQ Guo, G Chen, YN Wang, XM Zha, ZD Xu - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
The identification of wildfires is a very complex task due to their different shapes, textures,
and colours. Traditional image processing methods need to manually design feature …

Demography, passive surveillance and potential habitat modelling of an Australian giant trapdoor spider (Idiopidae: Euoplos grandis) from the Queensland Brigalow …

MG Rix, JD Wilson, MJ Laidlaw, MS Harvey… - Austral …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 'Slow science'approaches to generating authoritative longitudinal datasets for long‐
term monitoring are fundamental to conservation biology. Following reports of significant …

From fake news to echo-chambers: On the limitations of new media for environmental activism in Australia, and “Activist-Responsive Adaptation”

DL Calibeo, R Hindmarsh - Environmental Communication, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
For environmental activism, new media are now essential campaign tools to better protect
the environment and enhance sustainability. The literature, however, poses some limitations …

Insights into the indigenous-managed landscape in southeast Australia during the Holocene

MA Adeleye, SG Haberle, F Hopf, S Harris… - Vegetation History and …, 2023 - Springer
Understanding the long-term interactions between people and the ecosystem in which they
live is vital for informing present-day ecosystem management plans. The use of pollen data …

Ecological consequences of Australian “Black Summer”(2019–20) fires: A synthesis of Australian Commonwealth Government report findings

SJ Khan - Integrated Environmental Assessment and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the summer of 2019–2020, more than 15 000 wildfires burned up to 19
million hectares of forest and woodland regions across Australia. These fires culminated in …