Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors.; Wildfires pose significant threats to ecosystems worldwide, making rapid firefighting responses essential. Firefighters face major challenges in advanced-stage fires, highlighting the need for early detection and improved operational support. However, current rural road mapping methods often fail under occlusions from vegetation and shadows, lack adaptability to wildfir...
Funding Information: This project was supported by the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) with registered number NCT06235593 . Funding Information: This work is funded by nationalfunds through the Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UIDP/04923/2020. Publisher Copyright: © 2024; Most aging populations report chronic illnesses, which are usually permanent or recurrent, significantly ...
Funding Information: This research was funded by the Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER), Programa Interreg VA España-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014–2020, Instituto Internacional de Investigação e Inovação em Envelhecimento–Capitaliza, “0786_CAP4ie_4_P”. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.; This study aimed to identify and characterize biopsychosocial factors that impact the purpose in life (PIL) ...
Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.; To effectively manage the terrestrial firefighting fleet in a forest fire scenario, namely, to optimize its displacement in the field, it is crucial to have a well-structured and accurate mapping of rural roads. The landscape’s complexity, mainly due to severe shadows cast by the wild vegetation and trees, makes it challenging to extract rural roads based on processi...
Funding Information: This work was financially supported by FCT (National Foundation of Science and Technology) within the Research Unit CTS?Centre of Technology and Systems, UIDB/00066/2020, and the Project forester (PCIF/SSI/0102/2017). We would like to thank the authorities from the municipality of Ma??o, in particular to Engineer Ant?nio Louro, for the valuable support in establishing the user requirements ...