Remote Sensing of Wildland Fire-Induced Risk Assessment at the Community Level

• Published in: Sensors
• Main Authors: M. Ahmed, Khan Rahaman, Quazi Hassan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: 2016 Horse River Fire; structural damages; very high spatial resolution; wildland-urban interface (WUI); WorldView-2; Canada; Fort McMurray; Horse River; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/s18051570

Wildland fires are some of the critical natural hazards that pose a significant threat to the communities located in the vicinity of forested/vegetated areas. In this paper, our overall objective was to study the structural damages due to the 2016 Horse River Fire (HRF) that happened in Fort McMurra...