Can artificial intelligence learn to spot wildfires?

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Can artificial intelligence learn to spot wildfires?
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Fire agencies are using camera- and satellite-linked AI systems like SmokeyNet to detect wildfires, but fire smoke is mistakable for both humans and computers.

“It went from about five minutes with just baseline, just the camera data, to a little over four minutes.” she said.

If that sounds pretty good, maybe it is. But SmokeyNet was also missing about 30% of the fires that actually occurred. Suzann Leininger is an intelligence specialist with Cal Fire San Diego and she’s been working with a similar AI system, calledShe has seen the false positives. “The AI says ‘this, from what I know, could be smoke.’ Then you have a subject matter expert say yes or no,” Driscoll said.

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