Carl Pennypacker sits down with CBC Radio to talk about devastating wildfires, FUEGO, and government funding. Read or listen here.
“This astrophysicist has an audacious plan to stop wildfires”
In the continued effort to bring the website update I will be uploading a few recent news stories about FUEGO. In this press coverage our own Carl Pennypacker talks with NBC news about the importance of detecting fires early and how we working to do so. Click here to read […]
FUEGO Workshop Today — Cubesats
Today is the 5th workshop FUEGO is hosting. Our theme for the workshop is CubeSats. FUEGO hopes to incorporate these small low cost satellites into our larger fire intelligence network. To learn more about CubeSats and other exciting develops in the world of fire detection, monitoring, and simulation join us […]
Final Report for the Raspberry Pis
Here you can read about the final report for the Raspberry Pi fire detection system. It serves as the preliminary implementation of the larger FUEGO unit. Using python algorithms, the Raspberry Pis can capture and detect fires with high accuracy as summarized by Woodrow Wang, Nicolas Captier, and Eugene Tian.
Test of the Raspberry Pi in a plane
Sunday, July 12th, 2015 Woody Wang, Nicolas Captier and Robin Lafever did the first test with the Raspberry Pi hooked on a plane. This report is the summary of this test.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Enlist Drones As ‘Smokey’
Here a very good article about FUEGO published in Satnews (July, 6th), and written by Tianyi Dong: http://www.satnews.com/story.php?number=1378365532
Roundtable Presentations 10 Dec 2013
This folder contains the presentations delivered at the 10 December 2013 FUEGO Roundtable.
FIRE URGENCY ESTIMATOR IN GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT
This is a representation of the FUEGO concept by Robin E. Lafever, from LBNL