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Author: Krishna Rao
Krishna Rao is an Earth scientist currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Remote Sensing Ecohydrology Group at Stanford University. He works on developing technologies to measure forest health and understand its impacts on Earth processes across scales. The group studies how ecosystems and the carbon cycle respond to variations in water availability, and how they will shift under future climate.
How artificial intelligence helps monitor forest dryness
Forest wildfire risk is increasing in the western United States. In the past five decades, large wildfire frequency and the area destroyed have risen by more than four and six times, respectively. The increased risk posed by wildfires has prompted scientists to try to assess wildfire risk to help inform whether to move people to safety before disastrous wildfires occur.