The Lighters | Spot That Fire!

Awards & Nominations

The Lighters has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

The Challenge | Spot That Fire!

Build a crowdsourcing tool for citizens to contribute to early detection, verification, tracking, visualization, and notification of wildfires.

No Smoke

This project will allow a person to spot wild fires in your area quickly and respond.

The Lighters

The applications will allow a person take pictures of fires and make other people aware as quickly as possible.

Using an application on your cell phone you can then send media along with your positions to central application server. The application will also track the heat signature from the fire using satellite imaging. From there authorities will get a notifications and can respond with the proper location of the fire. Other people can be notifies also like the Red Cross and near by neighbors. Also immediate family members can be notified. Also information can be provided to a person on fire safety and how to respond.


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SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.