The Challenge | Spot That Fire!

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

Detecting Fire and Notifying People within 10 s

The wildfires can be detected within 10 s by improving connectivity between individuals, social medias, NASA's database, drones and other aircrafts, and firefighters.

Vigil

Solution Goal:

Detecting Wildfires and Notifying People at Risk within 10 s


What does our project do?

By improving connectivity between individuals, social medias, NASA's database, drones and other aircrafts, and firefighters, the wildfires can be detected within 10 s.


How to Detect Wildfires and Notify People around Fires within 10 s?

- 10 s before the Fire: Infer the Possibility of Wildfires by Climate Data.
A detailed description is shown in "Predicting Daily Fire Occurence": https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

- 8 s before the Fire: Start Launching Drones and Other Aircrafts to Detect and Verify the Fires.
A detailed description is shown in "Detecting Fires from the Sky": https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

- 3 s before the Fire: Potential Fire Alarms through Third Party Social Media.
Potential Collaboration Partner: https://twitter.com/wildfiretoday?lang=en

- 3 s after the Fire: Report a Fire through Geolocated Social Media Posts.
A detailed description is shown in "Report for Wildfire Detection, Identification, and Visualization": https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

- 5 s after the Fire: Drones and Other Aircrafts Provide Real Time Information about How a Fire is Unfolding.
A detailed description is shown in "Detecting Fires by Drones": https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

- 7 s after the Fire: Social Medias Alert People around the Fire and Show Potential Exits and Entry Points.
Potential Collaboration Partner: Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat

- 10 s after the Fire: Call for Firefighters.
Our mission, as Vigil (a Latin word, means "watchman who alerts fireman in Rome"), has accomplished.


Supplementary Materials and Related Code from Our GitHub Group

- 10 s before the Fire: Infer the Possibility of Wildfires by Climate Data.
Home-made Code: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/tree/...
Predicting Daily Fire Occurence: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...
Third Party Code: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/tree/...
Climate Data: http://climatedata.us/#map

- 8 s before the Fire: Start Launching Drones and Other Aircrafts to Detect and Verify the Fires.
Detecting Fires from the Sky: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

- 3 s before the Fire: Potential Fire Alarms through Third Party Social Media.
Potential Collaboration Partner: https://twitter.com/wildfiretoday?lang=en

- 3 s after the Fire: Report a Fire through Geolocated Social Media Posts.
Home-made Code with 84.27% Accuracy on Validation Set: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/tree/...
Report for Wildfire Detection, Identification, and Visualization: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

- 5 s after the Fire: Drones and Other Aircrafts Provide Real Time Information about How a Fire is Unfolding.
Home-made Drone: https://github.com/zyning/nasa-spaceapp-2018/blob/...

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