Project Details

The Challenge | Spot That Fire V2.0

Your challenge is to create an application that leverages NASA's near-real-time and archival wildfire datasets along with other tools to support firefighting and fire mitigation efforts. This challenge builds on last year’s challenge of the same name by calling for innovative ideas and apps that focus on how to engage and enable citizens to assist with the entire firefighting and fire mitigation process.

GreenReach

GreenReach is an intelligent wildfire monitoring platform that can perform predictions and provide real-time mitigation assistance.

As a wildfire monitoring platform, it also attempts to provide (1) real-time mitigation strategies and (2) prediction capabilities by collecting data from various sources (via remote sensing, crowdsourcing, and integration with locally-embedded sensors and cameras).

To provide real-time mitigation, we provide services that allow users to locate the nearest hospitals and the nearest path in order to get there.

We also provide a visualization of the wildfire's intensity and aggregate local weather and satellite data to provide assistance to the forestry and fire protection teams on how the wildfire can be efficiently extinguished to minimize costs, damage and reduce resource waste.

Other than local weather conditions, we also look for electrical grids within the forests' proximity and the current soil moisture data to be able to perform predictions on how likely a wildfire can strike and provide potential damage and impact assessments.

We also offer a way for users to:

  • integrate locally-embedded sensors to improve the data and reduce the noise
  • automatically send and run snapshots from surveillance cameras at a given interval to keep track of potential man-made factors (e.g. car accidents/explosions near the forest).