Satellites could spot wildfires as small as 5 meters

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]We have FireSat, which is a global wildfire detection and tracking system.

[00:00:05]That will enable fires small as 5 m by 5 m to be detected and tracked, perimeter, intensity of fire, and path of fire for public safety fire operators globally. And so the kind of always-on connectivity and the kind of processing allows us to move all of that decision-making up into orbit where you've got these always-on kind of systems that aren't going to be sort of slowed down by wind conditions or cloud cover or things like that.

[00:00:36]>> I mean, that's really impressive when you're talking about 5 m by 5 m, especially when you're talking about something like wildfires and prevention and detection. Like last 5 years alone, something like a trillion dollars' worth of economic impact if you start to layer in the knock-on effects. I mean, it's it's a huge issue that governments can't seem to get their arms around, especially when you do start to talk about climate change.

[00:00:57]>> We think it's it'll have a big impact and to your point about the trillions of dollars of infra- infrastructure that's threatened globally and increasingly so.

[00:01:05]It's sometimes difficult if the budget doesn't come from a single entity to get that put into a particular new capability or technology. And >> Yeah.

[00:01:13]>> that's where I think the public-private partnerships of private companies and eventually some government entities can come and then benefit from these new technologies.

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