It's a weird thing that my lab is developing superficially similar products, looking at property-scale bushfire risk across Hobart.

Bela Lugosi's Dad

It's a weird thing that my lab is developing superficially similar products, looking at property-scale bushfire risk across Hobart. But we're scientists at a university, so we have to validate our work, review the literature, undergo peer review, while private spatial consultants can just go and... Make a pretty map that gets in the news https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-23/tas-bushfire-risk-across-greater-hobart-updated/104507444

Liam :fnord:

@jimbob @phocks don’t your councils do risk mapping with BAU? Why is this being private sectored this is weird

Bela Lugosi's Dad

@liamvhogan @phocks absolutely, it *is* weird. It's basically a Lidar map of tree height but, you know, there's money in natural hazards

Liam :fnord:

@jimbob @phocks to make it valuable you’d need to re-sample the data very frequently, honestly after storm to bring down a few trees here and there. Certainly monthly