Given most of the people on that paper are members, might be a decent time to plus Wildfire Commons. It’s a group working on modeling fires and other tech related to fires and mitigation, plus soon to be an open data sharing hub for the research community.
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When non-wildfire people try to study wildfire, they come to weird conclusions. These people think they can prevent lightning? “We might be able to do something to avoid multi-ignition events. That is one of our objectives.”
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sounds like all the next gen wildland fire solutions on LinkedIn @pyrogeography
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Highlights from Microsoft: Advancing AI for disaster response: Joint research aims to improve early wildfire detection, situational awareness, and decision-making for emergency managers. Preliminary tests with Microsoft’s AI show detection 10–30 minutes earlier than the current platform—critical for containing fires before they escalate, potentially before the first 911 call.
Camera picture processing to boost transmission from one frame every 20 seconds to one frame per second. This near-real-time capability will better capture the critical first minutes of ignition, analyzing smoke characteristics for faster, more informed responses.
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