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Diane Davies on a wildfire alert system

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Fire near Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan., August, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Helen Miller)

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‘I’m interested in ways of overcoming technology barriers and making this type of data useful and usable to a wide range of users.’ – Diane Davies

Diane Davies of the University of Maryland has helped create a global fire alert system that detects wildfires from space – then sends land managers this urgent information in an email, or text message. EarthSky’s Lindsay Patterson spoke to Dr. Davies.

Our thanks to NASA‘s Terra Mission, helping us better understand and protect our home planet.

Our thanks to:
Diane Davies
University of Maryland

Written by Lindsay Patterson

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at 10.12 am on 12-13-2008 Steven Earl Salmony

The world watches avoidable disasters unfold in plain sight because too many leaders willfully and foolishly extoll as virtues a pathological level of hubris and a malignant form of greed.



Steven Earl Salmony

AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,

established 2001

http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176



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