GCRTC panel explores Indigenous knowledge and engineering perspectives on wildfire resilience
As communities across British Columbia confront the growing impacts of wildfire, building resilience requires knowledge and collaboration across disciplines, professions and lived experiences. The Green Construction Research & Training Centre (GCRTC) at UBC Okanagan invites the campus and broader community to an upcoming panel discussion: Indigenous Knowledge, Land-Use, Planning, and Engineering Perspectives on Wildfire Resilience: […]
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High-tech surveillance safeguards against wildfires
Researchers at UBC Okanagan and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed an innovative wildfire detection method that uses drones and smart technology to detect wildfires.