Imagine a system that could detect any bushfire in Australia within minutes of ignition so firefighters could tackle the blaze before it spreads.
Last week saw an important development on the road to this future: a Queensland-based company, Fireball, announced the first purpose-built satellite for fire detection in Australia.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Australia’s first satellite that can help detect bushfires within one minute of ignition set for launchImagine a system that could detect any bushfire in Australia within minutes of ignition so firefighters could tackle the blaze before it spreads.
Last week saw an important development on the road to this future: a Queensland-based company, Fireball, announced the first purpose-built satellite for fire detection in Australia.
more…
Excellent. Need more.
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Australia’s first satellite that can help detect bushfires within one minute of ignition set for launchImagine a system that could detect any bushfire in Australia within minutes of ignition so firefighters could tackle the blaze before it spreads.
Last week saw an important development on the road to this future: a Queensland-based company, Fireball, announced the first purpose-built satellite for fire detection in Australia.
more…
Excellent. Need more.
There will be 24.
Tau.Neutrino said:
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Australia’s first satellite that can help detect bushfires within one minute of ignition set for launchImagine a system that could detect any bushfire in Australia within minutes of ignition so firefighters could tackle the blaze before it spreads.
Last week saw an important development on the road to this future: a Queensland-based company, Fireball, announced the first purpose-built satellite for fire detection in Australia.
more…
Excellent. Need more.
There will be 24.
Brilliant !
The book SMAD (Space Mission Analysis and Design) proposes a constellation of satellites watching out for forest fires, name of FireSat.
The following information is from SMAD.
“Because forest fires have an increasing impact on recreation and commerce and ever increasing public visibility, the … needs a more effective system to identify and monitor forest fires. In addition, it would be desirable (but not required) to monitor forest fires for other nations; collect statistical data on fire outbreaks, spread, speed, and duration and provide other forest management data.
Number of satellites in the constellation is rerlated to number of hours between scans.
2 satellites – 12 hr delay
4 satellites – 6 hr delay
6 satellites – 4 hr delay
8 satellites – 3 hr delay
10 satellites – 2.4 hr delay
With 24 satellites in the constellation, there’s a reading over each location every hour.
I read this earlier today and I’m looking forward to it. Currently I use:
https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/map.htmlWhich is really useful, but has up to several hours delay. Not such a problem on a big fire where you have time to plan ahead, but for small fires just starting up, 000 callers have already reported it before it shows up on screen.
In the meantime, there’s still this:
https://hotspots.dea.ga.gov.au/