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Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Bushfire Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Drones, 2023 The intensity and frequency of bushfires have increased significantly, destroying property and living species in recent years. Presently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology advancements are becoming increasingly popular in bushfire management ...
Shouthiri Partheepan +2 more
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 Topography plays a significant role in determining bushfire severity over a hilly landscape. However, complex interrelationships between topographic variables and bushfire severity are difficult to quantify using traditional statistical methods.
Saroj Kumar Sharma +3 more
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Fire Severity Mapping System for Australia
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 "Savanna Burning" methodologies to calculate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) are applied across the tropical savannas and rangelands of north Australia.
Andrew Craig Edwards +3 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020 Building on unique Indigenous advantages for people living in remote areas, this study offers insights for innovative land-based economic opportunities across northern Australia.
Kamaljit K. Sangha +3 more
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Comparing the Effects of Wildfire and Hazard Reduction Burning Area on Air Quality in Sydney
Atmosphere, 2023 Landscape fires emit smoke that contains particulate matter (PM) that can be harmful to human health. Prescribed fires or hazard reduction burns (HRBs) and wildfires can substantially reduce air quality in populated areas.
Michael A. Storey, Owen F. Price
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Air pollution, human health and climate change: newspaper coverage of Australian bushfires
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 We examine 512 Australian newspaper articles published over a five-year period (2016–2021) that report on air pollution due to bushfire smoke and resulting human health impacts. We analyze to what extent these articles provide information on the possible
Martina K Linnenluecke, Mauricio Marrone
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Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2021 Bushfire susceptibility mapping helps the government authorities predict and provide the required disaster management plans to reduce the adverse impacts from bushfires.
Maryamsadat Hosseini, Samsung Lim
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Underground LoRa Sensor Node for Bushfire Monitoring [PDF]
, 2022 The feasibility of an underground LoRaWAN bushfire temperature sensing node from the point of view of survivability in a bushfire event is considered. Thermal penetration into the soil is modelled using a one-dimensional analytical formulation for a semi-
Fastier-Wooller, Jarred +10 more
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Australia safer together - A new approach to reducing the risk of bushfire in Victoria
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019 The threat of bushfire is rising significantly globally, with Victoria being one of the most bushfire prone areas in the world. Bushfire risk is significantly increasing with climate change already affecting the fire regime, with the likelihood and ...
Alen Slijepcevic
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European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022 Background: The long-term health effects of bushfires include the potential to trigger new and exacerbate existing mental health problems. Objective: This review aimed to determine the prevalence of long-term mental health issues in Australian ...
Yanqin Zhang +5 more
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