Extreme wildfires are becoming increasingly common due to hotter and drier conditions around the world. To help detect and track wildfires, fire managers rely in part on satellite observation, and to better understand fire behavior and implications, researchers do too. As part of a project to advance space-based detection and tracking, the Moore Foundation and Google.org are supporting Earth Fire Alliance to launch FireSat – a satellite system optimized to detect and track wildfires. FireSat will provide high-resolution imagery to detect wildfires that are roughly the size of a classroom, and provide updates every 20 minutes, including the fire intensity.
We are pleased to partner with Google.org to support Earth Fire Alliance and their efforts to build and launch FireSat – which will be a key resource to aid fire managers in decisions to enable beneficial fire and to respond safely and effectively when our communities and natural resources are understood to be at risk.
Critical research for this project was conducted with the help of a team of science advisors who provided important knowledge and insights:
- Ane Alencar, IPAM
- Dar Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara
- Louis Giglio, University of Maryland
- Doug Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- James Randerson, University of California Irvine
Learn more in the Google Research announcement.
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