A survey is being put forth by Elisabeth McElwee, a Master of Forestry candidate at Duke University and the 2021 Charles Collins Intern with The Forestland Group. The purpose of this survey is to better understand the use of drones in forest management today.
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New Aerial Firefighting Technology
Skies Magazine latest issue includes a list of new developments in aerial firefighting technology.
Continue ReadingNew SFE Video: UAVs for Measuring Prescribed Fire Behavior
A new Southern Fire Exchange video features Jim Riddering, Ph.D., the Remote Sensing Program Manager at the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis at the University of Montana. In this video Jim talks about his project at the 2017 multinational Prescribed Fire Science Consortium event held at Tall Timbers Research Station and Pebble Hill Plantation in North Florida and South Georgia.
Continue ReadingNew Fact Sheet: Using Drones with Infrared Capabilities to Monitor Fire Behavior
A new fact sheet from Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service covers how landowners and land managers can incorporate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)’s, or drones into fire operations to make burns safer and easier to conduct.
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