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Firefighting: Wildland Urban Interface: Emerging Technologies in Wildfire Response

A wildland urban interface refers to the zone of transition between unoccupied land and human development, where human-made improvements intermix with wildland fuels.

Emerging Technologies in Wildfire Response

"There is an urgent need for technological innovation on three fronts: prediction, emergency response and forest management."

Jeremy Jurgens, The Next Frontier in Fighting Wildfires: FireAId Pilot and Scaling Insight Report

Drones

Artificial Intelligence

The above video is time lapse footage of the Palisades Wildfire, taken by cameras associated with ALERTCalifornia, a system which uses AI to process data on emerging wildfires collected from over 1100 monitoring cameras.

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