Northern Arizona University researchers are using drones to help detect and better manage wildfires no matter the size.
"Once the monsoon hits the Southwest, we get a lot of lightning strikes," says NAU School of Forestry graduate research assistant Leo O'Neill.
"Those will produce single tree lightning fires. They're a challenge to find a lot of times, so these drones could definitely help finding and locating these fires." "People built lookout towers to look for fires to try and detect them as early and as small as possible," Fulé says."Technology of various kinds, including drones, is helpful and potentially could be more helpful in that process."
The research group looks at thermal imagery of fires frame by frame, classifying whether the image has a fire or not. Their computer uses the images to learn from a large dataset to develop an algorithm that detects if a fire is present or not.
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