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

• Published in: Sensors
• Main Authors: Ahmed, M. Razu, Rahaman, Khan Rubayet, Hassan, Quazi K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2018
• Subjects: Article; Canada; Fort McMurray; Horse River; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981306/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29762504; 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...