Wildfire detection employing an imaging spectrometer with a digital focal plane array
Ronald B. Lockwood,
Michael K. Griffin,
Kevin K. Ryu
et al.
Abstract:Wildfires increasingly endanger people and property due to the growing population in the wildland urban interface, drought, and climate change. In the United States in 2023 over 1,000,000 acres burned in the western CONUS with no fire encompassing over 100,000 acres. Also, tragically the Lahaina Fire in Hawaii caused the deaths of over 100 people. In Canada, the extreme 2023 fire season resulted in almost 18,500,000 hectares burned, which was a factor of 2.6 larger than the previous high in 1995. The economic … Show more
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