Aerial firefighting has become an essential part of wildfire suppression strategies, offering the speed, precision, and ...

A satellite map has revealed the scale of wildfires around Los Angeles ... though areas within the containment lines may still be burning. But California is bracing for forecast strong winds ...

The sight of huge jet planes swooping over a fire line and ... away.” Aerial teams operated 24 hours, pulling long shifts that left them exhausted and fraught. “On a scale of one to 10 ...

These maps and images illustrate the immense scale of the challenge ... destruction in some places was evident in a comparison of satellite images taken before and after the fire.

With more than 60 planes and helicopters, California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire, says it has the largest fleet of aerial ... lead plane maps out the route ...

Aerial mapping exposed an entire outer area ... Photo of 1 km long outer fortification wall. Power/telephone line poles for scale. Credit: Nathaniel Erb-Satullo Erb-Satullo and his colleague ...

Fire officials suspect that more than 7,000 homes, business and other structures in Altadena, Sierra Madre and Pasadena have been damaged or destroyed by the wind-driven flames, based on aerial ...

Think large-scale drone deliveries, aerial inspections or vast overhead ... skies to missions that fall under low-risk beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), where a drone flies out of the pilot's ...

“Too many of our brothers and sisters are below the poverty line, too many of our children ... a primary school in the Jakarta satellite city of Depok. The 740 students were provided rice ...