After the Black Summer fires, experts called for a way of detecting bushfires more rapidly, using satellites. But executing this idea faces challenges.
abc.net.au/news/bushfires-can-be-detected-from-space-within-minutes-of-ignition/102765624In late 2019, as bushfires lit up Australia's east coast, Simon Jones received an urgent call from the Victorian Country Fire Authority .
Under the plan, satellite technology would be able to detect fires in a fraction of the time of the RMIT-developed algorithm.So, how are the new technologies progressing?Government agencies, industry and academics gathered in Brisbane last week for the annual Australasian Fire Authorities Council conference.
In Australia, most fires are still reported through triple-zero calls, and can burn for hours before authorities are alerted.The RMIT-developed fire-detection algorithm, trialled in 2019/20, demonstrated the potential for rapid space-based detection. In the years since, Minderoo has made significant progress, Fire Shield project manager Rania Poullos told the ABC.
In June this year, Minderoo sponsored a four-year $16 million XPRIZE challenge to develop technologies necessary to achieve the Fire Shield mission.Teams will have one minute to accurately detect all fires across a landscape "larger than entire states or countries"
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