Discrete global grid systems (DGGS) have been proposed as a data model for a digital earth
framework. We introduce a new data model and analytics system called IDEAS–integrated …

Despite recent advances in quantifying land-use/cover change (LUCC) transition potential,
transition rules are often not transparent and uncertainty is rarely made explicit. Here, we …

Prescribed burning is an essential forest management tool that requires strategic planning to
effectively address its multidimensional impacts, particularly given the influence of global …

Understanding the evolving discipline of urban fire situations is a basic but challenging task
for urban security and fire-fighting decisions. Traditional methods forecast the urban fire …

It is well known that global climate change causes an increase in forest fire frequency and
severity. Thus, understanding fire dynamics is necessary to comprehend the mitigation of the …

Capturing the dynamics of urban fire situation is a basic but challenging task, which takes an
indispensable role in the field of urban security and fire emergency decision. Traditional …

Industrial settlements are often source of disturbance for the surrounding area. In particular,
from an acoustical point of view, the noise emitted by machineries operating in the …

(EU) is the reduction of energy consumption and the elimination of energy wastage. These
two issues are extremely important, especially in large energy demanding areas, such as …

Physical polluting agents are a relevant problem in urban areas. The need for monitoring
and prediction of their time evolution is very useful to assess the impact to human health and …

Acoustical noise is one of the most relevant problem to be faced in urban areas. Since a
large network of monitoring stations would be very expensive, the adoption of predictive …