Washington researchers develop new wildfire data tool

Wildfires in the American West are getting bigger and more dangerous, fueled by a record megadrought this year, and decades of human-caused climate change.

Now, federal researchers are developing a new tool to give managers an eye in the sky, and hopefully, more information to battle these massive wildfires.

It's called RADR and was designed by senior research scientist Andre Coleman at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a federal facility in Richland, Washington.

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