“Especially with fire, the times are so compress that you have to apply technology to decide inside the time frame that you can affect the results of what you are happening,” says Collins.
Crystal Ezlon, a senior director of the Secur World Foundation, a non -profit that advocates sustainable space policies, says that although satellite and AI -tech can provide better data, it is very important that the data make it in the right hand.
“The tendency to help them all towards AI is clearly producing better results, but it will not produce permanent results.” Ezlon says. “This is really a huge positive because my biggest problem with any kind of environmental surveillance from space provides the data, how do you get data in the last user?” Ezlon says. “There are a lot of tech solutions, but how do you enter the hands of people who really use it?
Van Arsadel says the Fire SAT team’s goal is to make its tracking data accessible as possible, and is obliged to work directly with firefighting agencies to do so.
Van Arsadel has said that firefighting officials try to present this widespread theory of collecting data that “such fog associated with fire is linked to fire, where you do not know where they are.” “We’re just going to give you a picture of everything that you can possibly care about.”
Speed run
Although the conditions of destruction usually improve more information, it is unclear whether the satellite is presently detected at the moment that will be far faster than that. The camera network deployed by the Warning Wold Fire has been the first man to fire on the West Coast, which includes a deadly palcedes fire in Los Angeles last January. There is also the fact that when the fire sets starts, it may be able to carry fire, just having this information does not mean that the firefighters will be mobilized and can go on fire over time.
Daniel Swin, a climate scientist, who operates the blog Weather West and has long been detecting forest fires, says that although satellite -powered fresh reactions cannot be resolved, but to inform people as a risk of sharing information immediately.
“It doesn’t really solve the basic problems, but it is probably a beneficial task,” says Swin. “This helps to know where the fire is as soon as possible. Unfortunately, it does not give us much edge in extreme situations.”
These efforts of the fire also come at the time of growing investment in the tech with the aim of fighting the forest fire. That is, private companies that hope to help create new firefighting solutions and take advantage of this tech. In June, President Trump signed an executive order for a “general understanding” approach to fight the forest fire, which preferred the efforts of fire companies, as well as federal disaster agencies and federal agencies to “eliminate the forest and eliminate the forest’s forecast, to eliminate the forest fire.” Gone. “
