Elementary Team - Space Apps Challenge

Elementary Team| Spot That Fire V3.0

Spot That Fire V3.0

Recent wildfires worldwide have demonstrated the importance of rapid wildfire detection, mitigation, and community impact assessment analysis. Your challenge is to develop and/or augment an existing application to detect, predict, and assess the economic impacts from actual or potential wildfires by leveraging high-frequency data from a new generation of geostationary satellites, data from polar-orbiting environmental satellites, and other open-source datasets.

Presenting the FIRE COMBAT app

Summary

Our project is based on an app development to help citizens to identify and denounce fire outbreaks with a higher efficiency. This action looks for including functionalities for brigadists as well as for common people in order to approximate them from the relevant information referent to the threatened biome.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Through our app, it’s even easier for a brigadist/ fireman to “spot that fire”, even more if there are massive denounces. With actions like this, it’s also possible that these brigadists will be more aware of fires which are occuring in the present moment, so they’ll have a chance to arrive earlier to such place and investigate.

How We Developed This Project

First of all, we thought in a way to make the fire combats stronger, until we got to the current idea. With the app, a habitant can, while seeing a fire outbreak, take a photo of the happening event and post it in his city group, where it will be visible to the brigadist and for everyone responsible for treating the situation. Other resources are relatories consultation according to INPA’s and NASA’s data and the option of activating an emergency alarm in a certain region. But no doubts that the most fruitful resource is the direct contact between resident and fireman that will be made possible by the app.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

With the space agency's and INPA’s data, it is possible to notice areas which are suffering from the fire, as well as highly chanced fire areas. It’s also possible the risk zones analysis in each state, opening doors to more preventive, quick and effective action.

However, the information is not clear for the population, mainly for lay people. Therefore, we appropriated NASA's data and developed the idea of a simple app with easy and understandable language to the whole population.