Can AI help firefighters manage wildfires?

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For over a decade, Google Research has been working to develop AI based wildfire detection and mitigation solutions to provide critical information for emergency responders and to help scientists researching how fires spread. This work led to the development of FireSat – a purpose-built constellation of satellites designed exclusively for wildfire detection and tracking. FireSat will give firefighters and researchers access to high-resolution imagery, updated every 20 minutes, and analysis by AI models optimized to detect wildfires 1/400th smaller than current early detection satellites. Together, with our partners in the fire community, we plan to launch the first satellite in early 2025.