Report that fire

Communication channel between the population and public firefighting agencies

The problem with forest fires was the biggest negative highlight for Brazil in 2019. The environmental damage is huge and much has been done to try to mitigate this problem. A widely used approach is the use of satellite data to attempt to detect such fire outbreaks in order to quickly combat them.

However, there are still some limitations and points of failure in this approach:

• Weather conditions may interfere with the detection process, such as clouds and smoke;

• Satellite resolution may lead to inaccurate detections in fire location and proportion;

• There may be a delay in detection due to the passage time and minimum size of fire front required for detection.

In order to obtain better results in fire detection, we have created a facilitated communication channel between the population and the responsible agencies, generating more accurate alerts and additional information to help in the fight against the fire.

The main advantage of this project is that nothing will change in the daily lives of the population and the fire brigade.

• No registration or download of new applications is required to send alerts;

• Firefighters continue to receive notifications in a conventional manner through telephone calls.

Way of sending alerts

Through widely used applications:

• Creating alerts in travel and GPS apps:
  • Google Maps;
  • Waze;
  • Uber.
• By sending the location to a messaging app ChatBot:
  • WhatsApp;
  • Telegram.

Correlation with NASA data

A variety of weather information is used from the informed event location. These weather informations are made available by NASA and are used to classify the event with a severity level.

• Satellite-identified fire spots;
• Temperature;
• Air and soil moisture level;
• Wind speed and direction.

Fire Department Notification

Just as it is traditionally made

• Through a telephone call;
• Made automatically with detailed fire information;
• No additional system access required.

Application Result

For users:

• Makes it easy for the driving user to send the alert via a GPS APPs;

• The person may have some fear of calling the fire department, as it is difficult to tell the fire location accurately.

For firefighters:

• More accurate fire location identification;

• Alert with additional weather information;

• Assertiveness of mobilization of the corporation, according to the urgency of the situation;

• Reduces the incidence of prank calls.

Link to the project:

https://github.com/barretojs/ta-pegando-fogo

Link to the bot in Telegram (Whatsapp coming soon):

https://t.me/TaPegandoFogoBichoBot

Link to a example phone call (English-US):

https://soundcloud.com/neiesc/nasa-space-apps-report-that-fire-en-us

Link to a example phone call (Portuguese-Brazil):

https://soundcloud.com/neiesc/nasa-space-apps-report-that-fire-pt-br