CORDIS Express: Fighting fire with research results!
Every year, devastating forest fires take place in Europe and around the world, destroying thousands of hectares of forests and severely impacting citizens and the environment. And the situation looks set to worsen – the European Environment Agency (EEA) predicts that a warmer climate will result in more severe fire weather and an expansion of the fire-prone areas and longer fire seasons (albeit with considerable regional variation). EU-funded research teams are mindful of the current and future risks, and many have been focusing their efforts on developing systems and tools that can help avert disaster. The CRISMA project(opens in new window) team, for example, developed an innovative simulation and modelling tool to help decision makers involved in large-scale crisis management – one of the pilot schemes focused on an earthquake and forest fire in Italy. Meanwhile testing by the AIRBEAM project(opens in new window) confirmed that unmanned balloons and satellites can be effectively used to achieve integrated crisis management across large areas – in fact, during the latest drone test flight a fire at a range of more than 20 kilometres was detected. In this week’s CORDIS Express, you can explore these and other research results that are helping us to better predict and tackle forest fires and other disasters. - Unmanned aircraft demonstrate success in crisis management(opens in new window) - EU researchers develop new modelling tool for better crisis management(opens in new window) - Fire prevention by satellite(opens in new window) - Learning lessons in crisis management(opens in new window) - Trending science: Endangered orangutans threatened by fire in Indonesia(opens in new window)
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