#firesat — Public Fediverse posts

#Google-backed #satellites for #wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes #US, #Canada
The #FireSat program can spot #wildfires that other #satellites miss managed by the nonprofit #EarthFireAlliance.
Equipped with multispectral imaging that can peer through smoke and clouds and detect fires as small as 5x5m -- about 16x16ft. That capability was proven by a FireSat Protoflight satellite which showed it could detect low-intensity blazes invisible to existing satellites.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/google-backed-satellites-for-wildfire-detection-launch-as-smoke-chokes-us-canada/

Lancement de satellites de détection des feux de forêt, avec le soutien de Google, alors que la fumée étouffe les États-Unis d'Amérique et le Canada - Ars Technica https://share.google/TJ9k8OExhn7WP3yan
#feux #forêt #arbres #Canada #USA #média #Google #satellite #tech #FireSat #fumée #santé #pollution #air #iqa #incendies #constellation #EarthFireAlliance #MuonSpace #science #environnement #réchauffementclimatique #ArsTechnica

#MuonSpace:
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Muon Space Accelerates Into a Pivotal Year of Government and Commercial Mission Execution
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"A growing mission portfolio and launch manifest mark Muon’s transition to sustained, multi-mission execution under its Mission Foundry model"

https://www.muonspace.com/press/muon-space-accelerates-into-a-pivotal-year-of-government-and-commercial-mission-execution

3.2.2026

#EO #Erdbeobachtung #EarthFireAlliance #FireSat #MissileWarning #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SNC #SpaceFlight #Vindlér

FireSat adds orbit-visualization software to help firefighters plan around satellite passes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/firesat-adds-orbit-visualization-software-to-help-firefighters-plan-around-satellite-passes/

A Google-Backed… [Satellite] To [Help] Battle Wildfires Made It Into Orbit
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/a-google-backed-weapon-to-battle-wildfires-made-it-into-orbit/ <-- shared technical article
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https://sites.research.google/gr/wildfires/firesat/ <-- shared Google FireSat home page
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https://youtu.be/pmQlXLaHT_Y?si=q3wM80t7qQysAQxU <-- shared video overview of FireSat
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https://www.earthfirealliance.org/ <-- shared Earth Fire Alliance home page
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of this product]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #FireSat #monitoring #fire #wildfire #EarthFireAlliance #Google #satellite #remotesensing #earthobservation #detection #tracking #earlywarning #multispectral #infrared #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #climatechange #extremeweather #impacts #humanimpacts #infrastructure #damage #AI #machinelearning #emergencyresponse #model #modeling
@Google @GoogleResearch @EarthFireAlliance @MuonSpace

Google to invest in satellites and AI to better detect wildfires

Amid an outbreak of recent wildfires in California,
Google announced a commitment to spend $13 million to improve satellite imaging
to help track and detect wildfires,
starting as early as next year.

#FireSat, a constellation of more than 50 satellites,
will be able to detect wildfires as small as the size of a classroom,
about 16 by 16 feet

The first satellite will launch in early 2025, the media giant announced Monday.

Firefighting authorities currently rely on satellite imagery that detects wildfires but only when they reach about the size of a football field,
or more than an acre.

“We realized that if we can pair satellites with machine learning and artificial intelligence,
it was the perfect platform to generate real-time operational intelligence on fires,”
Christopher Van Arsdale, who leads the Google Research Climate & Energy group and is chairman of the Earth Fire Alliance, said in a video announcement.

The initiative is being led by the Earth Fire Alliance, a nonprofit that was launched in May to create FireSat and develop wildfire datasets,
with funding from Google and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-17/google-to-invest-in-satellites-and-ai-to-better-detect-wildfires

#FireSat: #Google :google: unterstützt satellitengestütztes Waldbrand-Warnsystem | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/FireSat-Google-unterstuetzt-satellitengestuetztes-Waldbrand-Warnsystem-9870236.html #ArtificialIntelligence