Quasi second-order stochastic dominance model for balancing wildfire risks and power outages due to proactive public safety de-energizations

J Su, S Mehrani, P Dehghanian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Faults on overhead power line infrastructures in electric power distribution systems (DSs)
can potentially ignite catastrophic wildfires, especially in areas exposed to high wind …

Burned area mapping using Unitemporal Planetscope imagery with a deep learning based approach

AY Cho, S Park, D Kim, J Kim, C Li… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The risk and damage of wildfires have been increasing due to various reasons including
climate change, and the Republic of Korea is no exception to this situation. Burned area …

Distributed deep reinforcement learning for fighting forest fires with a network of aerial robots

RN Haksar, M Schwager - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a distributed deep reinforcement learning (RL) based strategy for a
team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to autonomously fight forest fires. We first model …

Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima

MB Joseph, MW Rossi, NP Mietkiewicz… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are becoming more frequent in parts of the globe, but predicting where and when
wildfires occur remains difficult. To predict wildfire extremes across the contiguous United …

Grazing in California's Mediterranean Multi-Firescapes

L Huntsinger, S Barry - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The California landscape is layered and multifunctional, both historically and spatially.
Currently, wildfire size, frequency, and intensity are without precedent, at great cost to …

Assessment of fire hazard in Southwestern Amazon

IJM Ferreira, WA Campanharo, MLF Barbosa… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Fires are among the main drivers of forest degradation in Amazonia, causing multiple
socioeconomic and environmental damages. Although human-ignited sources account for …

Analyzing indirect economic impacts of wildfire damages on regional economies

E Kim, YJ Kwon - Risk Analysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article estimates the economic impacts of wildfire damage on Korea's regional
economies, developing an integrated disaster‐economic system for Korea. The system is …

[HTML][HTML] Globally consistent assessment of economic impacts of wildfires in CLIMADA v2. 2

S Lüthi, G Aznar-Siguan, C Fairless… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
In light of the dramatic increase in economic impacts due to wildfires over recent years, the
need for globally consistent impact modelling of wildfire damages is ever increasing …

Evaluating socioecological wildfire effects in Greece with a novel numerical Index

P Palaiologou, K Kalabokidis, MA Day, V Kopsachilis - Fire, 2020 - mdpi.com
Large-scale wildfires have become more frequent in Greece and coupled with the country's
limited economic resources, investments in both pre-fire planning and post-fire rehabilitation …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of wildfire ash on bacterioplankton abundance and community composition in a coastal embayment (Ría de Vigo, NW Spain)

A Gutiérrez-Barral, E Teira, A Díaz-Alonso… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfire ash can have an impact on coastal prokaryotic plankton. To understand the extent to
which community composition and abundance of coastal prokaryotes are affected by ash …