BehavePlus 7
BehavePlus 7 is a desktop app that predicts fire behavior and environment using models. It simulates fire spread rate, spotting distance, scorch height, tree mortality, fuel moisture, wind speed effects, and more.
PyreCast
PyreCast empowers agencies and individuals to make decisions regarding evacuation orders, suppression and containment strategies, power grid shut-offs, and more by providing them with near real-time fire updates, fire spread forecasts, and fire risk assessments.
Pyregence Launches New Forecasting Tool For Tracking Active Fire Spread
Firefighters in California battle 775,000 acres of fires from dry lightning. SIG built Pyregence, a wildfire forecasting tool
SERVIR-Amazonia Brings Data To The Ground For Better Decision-Making In The Amazon
Followers of environmental issues in the Amazon scarcely go a week without seeing news about threats to the biome. The region has been devastated with countless and constant hazards. For example, each year it experiences natural hazards like wetland degradation, salinization, destructive flooding, and severe fires, all compounded by climate change.
For Indonesia’s Wildfires, There Are No Easy Solutions
This week, we’re blogging about SIG’s work on reducing wildfire impacts in Indonesia and California. Fires in both regions have similar financial and health impacts, but differ in behavior. In Indonesia, even the ground itself can burn, requiring unique management approaches. Lessons learned in each place can inform solutions in the other.
