Falco Kuester, a researcher at ALERTCalifornia, a program run by the University of California San Diego, looks at imagery of firefighters at a fire from one of the program’s cameras, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in San Diego. California’s main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, in July started trying out an artificial intelligence system that looks for smoke from more than 1,000 mountaintop cameras feeds.
Employees of German startup OroraTech stand in front of a screen showing wildfires in Canada and the United States via satellites in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2023. The Munich-based company analyzes satellite images with artificial intelligence. The AI also takes into account factors like the type and condition of vegetation in the area and humidity levels, to detect and identify those flareups that have the potential to spawn devastating megafires.