Wildfires and E-Resilience
A wildfire is a fire in a wild area (such as a forest) that is not controlled and that can burn a large area very quickly. The E-Resilience Toolkit offers insights into a spectrum of available ICT tools and best practices that may benefit policymakers, DRM professionals and vulnerable communities in the Asia-Pacific region to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of wildfires.
Displaying 29 - 32 of 32 tools and best practices relevant to wildfires.
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PAGASA provides weather forecasts and risk / flood hazard maps through ICT in the Philippines.
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EM-DAT is an online database of historical disaster related information maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Its is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.
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AIDR is free and open source software that automatically collects and classifies tweets that are posted during humanitarian crises.
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The Disaster Information Management System is a tool that helps to analyze disaster related trends and their impacts in a systematic manner.