The center, known as NIFC, serves as the national hub for wildfire response, from a room filled with satellite feeds and radar tools. A fire prediction meteorologist, Jim Wallmann, monitors storms and ...

They are also developing methods that allow them to map submerged vegetation ... pigment detected by the high-resolution satellite images used in the Idaho project — and can’t currently ...

Idaho typically sees dozens of backcountry search and rescue missions each year. While cell service is often unreliable in remote areas, new satellite technology could help connect lost hikers ...

That’s how long it took for the Idaho State University GIS Center to ... long as weeks to collect and distribute. But now, using satellite imagery and a Geographic Information Systems mapping ...