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– Robert Boyce

EARLY WILDFIRE DETECTION: DEVELOPING SENSORS TO DETECT THE EARLIEST STAGES OF WILDFIRES

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) along with partners at the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and TechNexus have been working to support the development, evaluation, and commercialization of effective early warning wildfire detectors (EWWD).

EARLY WILDFIRE DETECTION: DEVELOPING SENSORS TO DETECT THE EARLIEST STAGES OF WILDFIRES

Satellites for Wildfire Detection

Learn more about how satellites are used in wildfire detection, along with advantages and limitations of the approach.

Machine Learning for Wildfire Detection

Learn more about how multimodal machine learning models are used for wildfire detection.