Grist: The Rim Fire, one of the biggest blazes in California`s history, came to officials` attention only after somebody noticed a column of smoke.
At a time when satellite technology is so powerful and pervasive that you can check your gutters for leaf litter using Google Earth, why are we still relying on human eyes to detect wildfires?
That`s what a team of researchers from California and Wisconsin would like to know. Writing in the journal Remote Sensing, they describe a satellite-based system...