🔥 Assessing Wildfire Severity and Identifying  Hotspots Using Computational Intelligence & Image Processing How machine learning, satellite imagery, and smart analytics are transforming wildfire monitoring in remote regions like Manang, Nepal Wildfires have become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Across the world, and especially in developing countries, fires are increasing due to factors such as agricultural burning, hunting practices, expanding human settlements, and shifts in vegetation patterns. When these fires occur in rugged, high‑elevation landscapes, assessing damage becomes even more difficult. Traditional methods depend heavily on ground surveys, which are slow, resource‑intensive, and often impossible in remote mountain regions. That’s where computational intelligence and geospatial technology step in. Our recent research chapter, published in Computational Intelligence in Surveillance Systems Using Image Processing (Elsevier, 2026),...