“In particular with fire, times are prosecuted so much that you need to use technology to make a decision in time that you can influence the result of what is happening,” says Collins.
Krystal Azelton, senior director of the Secure World Foundation, Non -Profit organization, which is in favor of balanced rules of space, claims that at least satellites and AI Tech can provide better data, it is key that the data is made in the appropriate hands.
“The trend towards artificial intelligence, to help all this, is of course to provide better results, but it does not necessarily bring consistent results.” Azelton says. “This is really big positive because one of my biggest fears related to the monitoring of the environment from space is to provide data, how will you get data to the end user?” Azelton says. “There are many technical solutions, but how to introduce them to the hands of the people who use it?
Van Arsdale claims that the goal of the Fire SAT team is to provide its tracking data as possible, and is involved in direct cooperation with fire -fighting agencies to do so.
“There is such a fog of war related to fires in which you do not know where they are when they start,” says Van Arsdale about an attempt to perceive this vast swath of collecting data to firefighters. “We’ll just give you a picture of everything that is happening, what you can worry about.”
Speed of speed
Although more information is usually better in a disaster situations, it is not clear whether this type of satellite detection will be much faster than what currently exists. Camera networks such as implemented ones Alertwildfire He was the first to notice fires throughout the west coast, including fatal Fire palisades In Los Angeles in January last year. There is also the fact that while SAT Fire cameras can be able to pick up a fire when it starts, only having this information does not mean that firefighters will be able to mobilize and reach fire in time.
Daniel Swain, climate scientist who runs the blog West weather And he has been following fires for a long time, he says that although satellite updates may not solve all the reality of the reaction time, it would be useful to share information with people in direct danger and inform people as the fire spreads as they spread.
“He doesn’t really solve basic problems, but it’s probably beneficial,” says Swain. “It helps to know exactly where the fire is as soon as possible. Unfortunately, it does not give us more advantage in the most extreme conditions.”
These efforts in fire also appear during increased investments in technology aimed at fighting fires. Namely, growth in private companies that want to help build new fire solutions – and profit from this technology. President Trump in June signed an executive order For the “common sense” of the approach to the fight against fires, which required the priority of the efforts of fire brigades while combining federal disaster agencies and instructing federal agencies in order to “reject historical satellite data in order to improve the prediction of fires and eliminate or eliminate the principles that will evade fires, prevention and reaction.”