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Flagstaff community members advance in wildfire detection contest.

Posted by Author on Source on October 16, 2024

Snuffed, a team composed of firefighters, engineers, ecologists and wildland activists based in Flagstaff, has advanced in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition to the semifinals. XPRIZE will host the event in April 2025.

The XPRIZE Wildfire competition began in April 2023 and aims to assist in creating new technologies that can rapidly detect wildfires before they become destructive.

At this stage in the project, the team comprises eight members, four of which are affiliated with NAU. A larger team of 25 researchers… Read more

Flagstaff team advances in global competition with proposal for fire-detecting satellites

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A NASA satellite captured this view of smoke from a wildfire in Nova Scotia in 2023.

The team proposes to put a ‘constellation’ of 90 small satellites into Earth orbit equipped with heat-seeking sensors built at Northern Arizona University. The network would continuously monitor wildfire-prone areas in parts of the Southwest including Flagstaff and the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska.

Read the full article at KNAU.

More information about the XPRIZE Wildfire… Read more

Astronomers, computer scientists preparing to track rare asteroid behavior

Posted by Ed on May 11, 2023

Professor David Trilling, grad-student Maria Chernyavskaya, and undergrad Gavin Moriarty looking over parts of a PANOPTES telscope.

Advancing science goes hand in hand with educating scientists of the future and engaging the public. David Trilling and Mike Gowanlock have hosted two astroinformatics bootcamps introducing students from diverse backgrounds to the data science behind astronomy, including writing and testing algorithms to measure the properties of asteroids. Now they’re building small robotic telescopes that will enable students at NAU,… Read more

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