A company based in Gainesville, Florida, is fighting wildfires by applying artificial intelligence to reduce the time it takes to identify a devastating wildfire from 24 hours to just 40 seconds.
Climate change and land-use change have made uncontrolled and extreme wildfires one of the most serious threats to every continent on the globe, except Antarctica. That their flames contribute massively to the global climate crisis is a double whammy.
“This needs to be solved in the next decade if we want to avoid ecological devastation,” said Istvan Kereszy, Ph.D., the CEO and co-founder of Fire Neural Network (FNN).
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