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The target detection of smoke through remote sensing images obtained by means of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effective for monitoring early forest fires. However, smoke targets in UAV images are often small and difficult to detect accurately. In this paper, we use…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, forest fire, wildfire, smoke detection, UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles, fire monitoring, component stitching data enhancement, parallel spatial domain attention mechanism, symmetry, small-scale transformer feature pyramid network, China
Ecosystem process models can be used to predict forest response to disturbances at a range of scales. Selection of the spatial class of model should depend on the scale of the research or management question, and model type should depend on the ecosystem attributes of interest.…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon sequestration, Ecosystem Demography model, ecosystem modeling, Ichauway, Jones Center, LANDIS-II, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, wildfire
During summer 2018, wildfire smoke impacted the atmospheric composition and photochemistry across much of the western U.S. Smoke is becoming an increasingly important source of air pollution for this region, and this problem will continue to be exacerbated by climate change. The…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: wildfire, Idaho, air quality, VOC - volatile organic compounds, WE-CAN - Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen, CO - carbon monoxide, O3 - ozone, formaldehyde, PAN - peroxyacetyl nitrate, air pollution
We use observations of acyl peroxynitrates (PANs) from the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) to investigate PANs over the western U.S. during the summer 2018 wildfire season. This period coincides with the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption,…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: wildfires, acyl peroxynitrates, PAN - peroxyacetyl nitrate, satellite, WE-CAN - Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen, transport, chemical production
Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we illustrate spatial variations that…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfire, chemistry, plume, hydroxyl radical, fire plume evolution, air quality, O3 - ozone
Wildfires generate large amounts of atmospheric pollutants yearly. The development of an emission inventory for this activity is a challenge today, mainly to perform the air quality modeling. There are accessible available databases with historical information about this source…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: GFAS - Global Fire Assimilation System, SMOKE - Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions, air quality modeling, biomass burning, black carbon, organic carbon, GFASv1.3, Southern Hemisphere, NCO - NetCDF Operator
The multiannual variability of wildfire areas and volumes of emissions of carbon components (CO, CO2) and aerosol (PM2.5) caused by wildfires has been analyzed for the large Russian regions over a 20-year period (from 2001 to 2020) on the basis of satellite monitoring. A…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite monitoring, Russia, remote sensing, wildfires, carbon components of gas, C - carbon, aerosols, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CO - carbon monoxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Wildfire smoke exposure is associated with a range of acute health outcomes, which can be more severe in individuals with underlying health conditions. Currently, there is limited information on the susceptibility of healthcare facilities to smoke infiltration. As part of a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, indoor air quality, wildfire, infiltration, low-cost air quality sensors, healthcare, healthcare facility, British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver
Background
Understanding the health effects of smoke from landscape fires (LFs), including wildfires and prescribed burns, is limited due to lack of adequate smoke exposure measures.
Methods
We used the reported LFs to determine smoke plume shapes from satellite images. Daily…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: health effects, wildfire, landscape fire, smoke exposure, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, cardiovascular disease, EMS - Emergency Medical Services, aerosols, ambulance, dose-response models, hospitalizations, li-fraumeni syndrome, health outcomes, optics
Over the past decade, western North America glaciers experienced strong mass loss. Regional mass loss during the ablation season is influenced by air temperature, but the importance of other factors such as changes in surface albedo remains uncertain. We examine changes in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: glaciers, albedo, Canada, Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, Alberta, forest fire aerosols, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, ERA5 temperature, AOD - aerosol optical depth
Fire detection and alarm system is fully concerned for safety. And convolutional neural network (CNN) has been introduced into fire/smoke detection based on video/image understanding. However, the samples of the existed public fire/smoke data sets are not enough to train very…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire detection, smoke detection, deep learning, YOLOv3, network pruning, OHEM - online hard example mining, CNN - convolution neural network
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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Large wildland fires generate smoke that can compromise air quality over a wide area. Limited studies have suggested that smoke constituents may enter natural water bodies. In an 18-year water monitoring study, we examined whether smoke from distant wildland fires had a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, water quality, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, Canada, Alberta
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. In this context, conceptualizing and parameterizing…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: climate change, Arctic, wildfires, AMAP - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, black carbon, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, fire management
One of the main sources of greenhouse gases is forest fire, with carbon dioxide as its main constituent. With increasing global surface temperatures, the probability of forest fire events also increases. A method that enables rapid quantification of emissions is even more…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Landsat 8, Sentinel-2, forest fire, wildfire, GEE - Google Earth Engine, Indonesia, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Wildland fires involve complicated processes that are challenging to represent in chemical transport models. Recent airborne measurements reveal remarkable chemical tomography in fresh wildland fire plumes, which remain yet to be fully explored using models. Here, we present a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: tomography, plumes, wildfire, wildland fire, chemical transport model, O3 - ozone, HONO - nitrous acid, air quality
Remote sensing (RS) images have been widely used in disaster monitoring due to their wide observation and timeliness. Wildfire is a type of destructive disaster, and smoke is an important signal of the occurrence of wildfires; therefore, it is necessary to perform smoke…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, remote sensing, scene classification, feature aggregation, wildfire, Global2Salient
Wildland fire activity and associated emission of particulate matter air pollution is increasing in the United States over the last two decades due primarily to a combination of increased temperature, drought, and historically high forest fuel loading. The regulatory monitoring…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM2.5, wildland fire, PM - particulate matter, small form factor sampler, air quality
During the summer 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne science campaign, the NASA Goddard CO2 Sounder lidar overflew smoke plumes from wildfires in the British Columbia, Canada. In the flight path over Vancouver Island on 8 August 2017, the column XCO2 retrievals from the lidar…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: CO2 - carbon dioxide, British Columbia, Canada, 2017 fire season, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, wildfires, carbon fluxes
Wildfire smoke is likely to have direct health effects on birds as well as influence movement, vocalization, and other avian behaviors. These behavioral changes may affect if and how birds are observed in the wild, although research on the effects of wildfire smoke on bird…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: birds, detection, avian behavior, wildfires, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, Washington, AIC - Akaike's information criterion
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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In September 2020, extremely strong wildfires in the western United States of America (i.e., mainly in California) produced large amounts of smoke, which was lifted into the free troposphere. These biomass‐burning‐aerosol (BBA) layers were transported from the US west coast…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: wildfires, biomass burning, aerosol, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, Aeolus
Peat fires in tropical peatland release a substantial amount of carbon into the environment and cause significant harm to peatlands and the ecology, resulting in climate change, biodiversity loss, and the alteration of the ecosystem. It is essential to understand peat fires and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fire, C - carbon, carbon emissions, depth of burn, burn depth, assessment, Malaysia
The fire plume height (smoke injection height) is an important parameter for calculating the transport and lifetime of smoke particles, which can significantly affect regional and global air quality and atmospheric radiation budget. To develop an observation‐based global fire…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, fire plumes, climate modeling, MFRP - Maximum Fire Radiative Power, MISR - Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, black carbon, atmosphere
Background
Wildland fire (wildfire; bushfire) pollution contributes to poor air quality, a risk factor for premature death. The frequency and intensity of wildfires are expected to increase; improved tools for estimating exposure to fire smoke are vital. New-generation satellite…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfire, bushfire, remote sensing, health risk, AI - artificial intelligence, convolutional neural network, air quality, satellite imagery