A bill making its way through the Colorado Legislature would create a $2 million pilot program to use cameras and artificial intelligence to help detect early signs of a wildfire.
Bill would create a $2 million pilot program to use cameras and artificial intelligence to help detect early signs of a wildfire.
The deployment of AI is part of an ongoing effort by firefighters to use new technology to become smarter about how they prepare and better position their resources. Fire lookout towers once staffed by humans have largely been replaced by cameras in remote areas, many of them in high-definition and armed with artificial intelligence to discern a smoke plume from morning fog.
Record-breaking storms that drenched California with more than 11 inches of rain in recent weeks and big snow dumps in other states have improved conditions in the short-term, but the drought persists across many western states, according to a Tuesday report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“The more you train the model, the better and better it gets,” said Miller, who added that his agency is very interested in the technology but that it’s still burgeoning and that a pilot program is a good place to start.
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