Researchers aim to predict future wildfire outbreaks using artificial intelligence. — AFP Relaxnews
In the collective imagination, global warming is responsible for the increasing power and frequency of forest fires. However, this is only partially true. As paradoxical as it may seem, some researchers suggest that the growing strength of fires is also due to the efficient work of fire services. By systematically extinguishing burning vegetation, firefighters would have inadvertently created the conditions for more and more fires.
In this context, prevention is the best remedy. Scientists and firefighters working together to develop new tools that can take into account the complexity of how fires emerge and spread have turned to artificial intelligence to provide solutions.The main advantage of artificial intelligence is its capacity to rapidly perform highly complex calculations that humans would take several days to resolve.