Google wants to improve the discovery of forest fires from space

“With the fire in particular, the times are so pressure that you have to apply technology to make a decision during the time frame, so that you can affect the results of what is happening,” says Collins.

“Although satellites and artificial intelligence technology may provide better data, it is important to make data in right hands, says Krystal Azelton, the first director of the Secure World Foundation, a non -profit organization calling for sustainable space policies, says that although satellites and artificial intelligence technology may provide better data, it is important to make data in the right hands,” says Krystal Azelton, the first manager of the Secure World Foundation, a non -profit organization calling for sustainable space policies.

“It is clear that the trend towards artificial intelligence to help all this will lead to better results, but it will not necessarily lead to consistent results.” Azzilon says. “This is really big because one of my biggest interests about any kind of environmental monitoring of space is the one who provides data, and how can you enter data into the final user?” Azzilon says. “There are a lot of technical solutions there, but how do you make it in the hands of the people who already use it?

Van Arsdale says the goal of the Fire Sat team is to make its tracking data available as possible, and it is committed to working directly with fire control agencies to do so.

“There is this type of fog of fire -related war, as you don’t know its place when it begins,” says Van Arsdel. “We will give you a picture of everything that happens you can care about.”

Operation speed

Although more information is usually better in disasters, it is not clear whether this type of satellite detection will be much faster than currently. Camera networks like those published by Alert He was the first to discover fires throughout the West Coast, including the killer Core In Los Angeles last January. There is also the fact that although the Sat Fire cameras may be able to pick up the fire at the moment when it begins, getting this information does not mean that firefighters will be able to fill and reach the fire in a timely manner.

Daniel Soyen, climate world runs the blog West weather Forest fires have long tracked, although updates that support satellites may not solve all the facts of the response time, they will be useful to share information with people in immediate danger and keep people to see the spread of the fire.

“It does not really solve basic basic problems, but it is likely to be useful,” says Swin. “It helps to know the location of the fire as soon as possible. Unfortunately, it does not give us a lot of edge under the most extreme conditions.”

The efforts of the fire of this fire also come at a time of increased investment in technology that aims to combat forest fires. It is an increase in private companies in the hope of helping to build new firefighting solutions – and benefit from this technology. In June, President Trump The executive order signed In order to “sound instinct” to fight forest fires, which called for a priority to the efforts of firefighters technology companies with combining federal disaster agencies and directing federal agencies to “raise the level of historical satellite data to improve the predictions of wildfire and re -review them or eliminate the rules that hinder the detection of forest fires, prevention and response.”