In this period when global warming is replaced by the era of global boiling, climate change brings with it natural disasters such as forest fires, drought and floods. Governments, together with technology giants, started to use artificial intelligence in order to detect these natural disasters, whose impact area has begun to increase, and to minimize disaster damage.
The world we live on is getting warmer and in this period when wildfires are becoming more frequent and more severe, manpower cannot easily prevent them. With world temperature alarming governmentsthey are trying to benefit from the power of artificial intelligence technology.
As a result of the cooperation between companies using artificial intelligence technology and governments, Forest fires began to be detected in advance. For this technology to work small amount of smoke This is enough for cameras using artificial intelligence to detect it.
In California, fire departments can detect smoke thanks to more than 1,000 cameras broadcasting video on mountain slopes. They do this thanks to the artificial intelligence technology they integrate into cameras.
Integrated into cameras artificial intelligence models, informs emergency command centers and activates fire extinguishing teams. teams, area of effect of fire They can take control of the situation before it escalates. In this way, forest fires can be prevented, although not completely.
Not just in California, but also in San Francisco ‘Board AI’ An initiative called has a similar working principle. In watchtowers machine learning Cameras equipped with can detect smoke and prevent any possible side effects. These cameras are the government’s weather It can even benefit from satellites and weather posts on social media.
Microsoft is challenging forest fires with artificial intelligence with its project called ‘Terrafuse’.
In October 2017, forest fires in northern california caused extensive damage and destroyed not only 245,000 acres of land but also 8,900 buildings. It burned to ashes. Microsoft took action after this great destruction and ‘Microsoft Azure’ It implemented the ‘Terrafuse AI’ project, supported by its technology.
Terrafuse, historical fire data real-time satellite observations It creates advanced fire risk models by combining Anyone who wants to reduce the effects of wildfires has access to APIs and graphics.
OroraTech, a Germany-based startup, is joining the fight against forest fires.
Image: A satellite image taken to detect forest fires, OroraTech.
Artificial intelligence’s fight against forest fires is not only in the world. Equipped with artificial intelligence algorithms that can detect fires mini satellites, OroraTech It is launched into a low orbit. These satellites fly over forests at night when unmanned aerial vehicles are less common. thermal data can receive.
The company’s system from 19 satellites and using images from multiple ground-based cameras, it can even detect wildfires in remote areas and then provide visuals of the area and fire progression over time.
in the Niassa Special Protected Area in Mozambique Wildlife Conservation Society, is currently using OroraTech’s system. Thanks to fire warnings, he prevented the burning of a base camp that was only 100 meters away from the fire.
Greece, Israel and South Korea are just a few of the states in global cooperation.
In the fight against forest fires, various governments combine their resources and participate in the fight together. where greece lives recent forest fires It caused great damage. After this fire, governments came together and stopped forest fires. be able to detect in advance They started to benefit from artificial intelligence for this purpose.
At the same time, South Korean and US scientists believe that more accurate fire signals They started working on a hybrid method by combining weather data with yaoay intelligence to get the data.
Canada’s telecommunications giant Rogers is taking steps to detect forest fires.
Image: Canadian telecommunications company Rogers’ artificial intelligence-supported cameras, Techcouver.
Canada also started a project for forest fire detection. Rogers, one of the telecommunication companies, supports these studies.
Canada’s leading telecommunications giant Rogers responds to the increasing threat of forest fires artificial intelligence supported cameras uses. These cameras can detect smoke from forest fires up to 19 km away. Thanks to real-time alerts, authorities can spread of fires It can prevent.
Google, one of the leading technology giants, can detect floods and forest fires in advance with its ‘FloodHub’ project.
Image: A Google project that can detect floods and forest fires, FloodHub, Google Blog
Google’s FloodHub tool, which operates in 20 countries, uses artificial intelligence to track floods and forest fires.
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